WO2012129548A2 - Expression in situ de lipase pour production enzymatique d'alcool esters pendant la fermentation - Google Patents

Expression in situ de lipase pour production enzymatique d'alcool esters pendant la fermentation Download PDF

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WO2012129548A2
WO2012129548A2 PCT/US2012/030468 US2012030468W WO2012129548A2 WO 2012129548 A2 WO2012129548 A2 WO 2012129548A2 US 2012030468 W US2012030468 W US 2012030468W WO 2012129548 A2 WO2012129548 A2 WO 2012129548A2
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  • the present invention relates to the fermentative production of alcohols, including ethanol and butanol, and processes for improving alcohol fermentation employing in situ product removal methods.
  • Alcohols have a variety of applications in industry and science.
  • alcohols can be used as a beverage (i.e, ethanol), fuel, reagents, solvents, and antiseptics.
  • butanol is an alcohol that is an important industrial chemical with a variety of applications, including use as a fuel additive, as a feedstock chemical in the plastics industry, and as a food-grade extractant in the food and flavor industry. Accordingly, there is a high demand for alcohols, such as butanol, as well as for efficient production methods which do not rely on non-renewable resources. Production of alcohol utilizing fernnentation by microorganisms is one such production method which utilizes substrates from renewable feedstocks.
  • ISPR In situ product removal
  • liquid-liquid extraction U.S. Patent Appl. Pub. No. 20090305370
  • the fermentation medium which includes the microorganism
  • the fermentation medium is contacted with an organic extractant.
  • the organic extractant and the fermentation medium form a biphasic mixture.
  • the butanol partitions into the organic extractant phase, decreasing the concentration in the aqueous phase containing the microorganism, thereby limiting the exposure of the microorganism to the inhibitory butanol.
  • Liquid-liquid extraction results from contact between the extractant and the fermentation broth for transfer of the product alcohol into the extractant; separation of the extractant phase from the aqueous phase; and, preferably, recycle of the extractant with minimal degradation of the partition coefficient of the extractant over a long-term operation.
  • the extractant can become contaminated over time with each recycle by, for example, the build-up of lipids present in the biomass that is fed to the fermentation vessel as feedstock of hydrolysable starch.
  • a liquified corn mash loaded to a fermentation vessel can result in a fermentation broth that contains corn oil during conversion of glucose to butanol by simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (with saccharification of the liquified mash occurring during fermentation by the addition of glucoamylase to produce glucose).
  • the dissolution of the corn oil lipids into an extractant during ISPR can result in build-up of lipid concentration with each extractant recycle, decreasing the partition coefficient for the product alcohol in extractant as the lipid concentration in extractant increases with each recycle.
  • Converting the lipids present in a liquefied mash into an extractant that can be used in ISPR is a method of decreasing the amount of lipids that are fed to the fermentation vessel, as is esterifying the product alcohol as it is produced during the fermentation with a fatty acid by adding lipase as an esterification catalyst to the fermentation.
  • Such methods are described for example in US Appl. Pub. Nos. 201 10312044 and 201 10312043, and PCT Appl. Pub. No. WO201 1/159998
  • the alcohol producing microorganism is yeast.
  • the polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having lipase activity is engineered.
  • the methods further comprise contacting the fermentation medium with an extractant to form a two-phase mixture comprising an aqueous phase and an organic phase.
  • the extractant comprises the carboxylic acid.
  • the product alcohol is a C2 to Cs alkyl alcohol.
  • the product alcohol is ethanol.
  • the alcohol esters comprise fatty acid ethyl esters.
  • the product alcohol is butanol.
  • the alcohol esters comprise fatty acid butyl esters.
  • the alcohol esters further comprise fatty acid ethyl esters.
  • polypeptides provided herein having lipase activity are displayed on the surface of the microorganism. In embodiments, polypeptides having lipase activity are secreted. In embodiments, the polypeptide having lipase activity comprises a sequence having at least about 70% identity, at least about 80% identity, at least about 90% identity, or at least about 95% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs: 249, 250, 251 , 252, 253 or a fragment thereof.
  • the polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having lipase activity comprises a sequence with at least about 70% identity to a polynucleotide having SEQ ID NO: 1 , 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 255, 271 or 273.
  • the polypeptide having lipase activity comprises a sequence with at least about 70% identity, at least about 80% identity, at least about 90% identity, or at least about 95% identity to a polypeptide having SEQ ID NO: 2,4, 6, 256, 47, 49, 51 , 53, 55, 241 , 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 272, or 274 or an active fragment thereof.
  • the polypeptide having lipase activity does not contain a glycosylation motif. In embodiments, the polypeptide having lipase activity is not glycosylated.
  • the carboxylic acid comprises free fatty acids derived from corn oil, canola oil, palm oil, linseed oil, jatropha oil, or soybean oil. In embodiments, the carboxylic acid is derived from the same biomass feedstock as the fermentable carbon substrate. In embodiments, the carboxylic acid comprises carboxylic acids having C12 to C22 linear or branched aliphatic chains. In embodiments, the contacting with extractant and the contacting with carboxylic acid occur contemporaneously. In embodiments, at least about 60% of the effective titer of alcohol produced by the microorganism is converted to alcohol esters.
  • the fermentation medium further comprises triglycerides, diglycerides, monoglycerides, and phospholipids, or combinations thereof and the lipase activity hydrolyzes at least a portion of the triglycerides, diglycerides, monoglycerides, and phospholipids, or combinations thereof to form free fatty acids.
  • the effective titer of alcohol produced during a fermentation is greater than that produced during a fermentation by an alcohol-producing microorganism that does not comprise a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having lipase activity and the microorganism expresses and secretes or displays said polypeptide such that the lipase activity is present in the fermentation medium.
  • the effective rate of alcohol produced during a fermentation is greater than the rate of alcohol production during a fermentation by an alcohol-producing microorganism that does not comprise a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having lipase activity and the microorganism expresses and secretes or displays said polypeptide such that the lipase activity is present in the fermentation medium.
  • polypeptide having lipase activity comprises a sequence having at least about 70% identity, at least about 80% identity, at least about 90% identity, or at least about 95% identity to SEQ ID NO: 2, 4, 6, 256, 47, 49, 51 , 53, 55, 241 , 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 272, or 274 or an active fragment thereof.
  • the polypeptide having lipase activity comprises a sequence having at least about 70% identity, at least about 80% identity, at least about 90% identity, or at least about 95% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs: 249, 250, 251 , 252, 253 or a fragment thereof.
  • the polypeptide having lipase activity does not contain a glycosylation motif. In embodiments, the polypeptide having lipase activity is not glycosylated.
  • the engineered polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having lipase activity comprises a sequence having at least about 70% identity, at least about 80% identity, at least about 90% identity, or at least about 95% identity to SEQ ID NO: 1 , 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 255, 271 or 273.
  • Also provided herein are recombinant host cells comprising an alcohol production pathway; and an engineered polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having lipase activity wherein the polypeptide having lipase activity comprises a sequence having at least about 70% identity, at least about 80% identity, at least about 90% identity, or at least about 95% identity to SEQ ID NO: 2, 4, 6, 256, 47, 49, 51 , 53, 55, 241 , 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 272, or 274 or an active fragment thereof.
  • the polypeptide having lipase activity further comprises a sequence having at least about 70% identity, at least about 80% identity, at least about 90% identity, or at least about 95% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs: 249, 250, 251 , 252, 253 or a fragment thereof.
  • the alcohol production pathway is a butanol production pathway.
  • the butanol production pathway is an isobutanol production pathway.
  • the host cell further comprises reduced or eliminated pyruvate decarboxylase activity.
  • Also provided herein are methods of increasing tolerance of an alcohol-producing microorganism to the produced alcohol comprising: engineering a microorganism to express and secrete or display a polypeptide having lipase activity; contacting the engineered microorganism with triglycerides, diglycerides, monoglycerides, phospholipids, free fatty acids, or a mixture thereof and a carbon substrate under conditions whereby the microorganism produces an alcohol.
  • the engineered microorganism is contacted with triglycerides, diglycerides, monoglycerides, and phospholipids, or combinations thereof and wherein the secreted or displayed lipase converts at least a portion of the trigylcerides, diglycerides, monoglycerides, and phospholipids, or combinations thereof into free fatty acids.
  • the lipase catalyzes the formation of alcohol esters.
  • the microorganism produces alcohol at an effective titer greater than that produced by a microorganism that has not been engineered to express and secrete a polypeptide with lipase activity.
  • the microorganism further comprises an engineered alcohol biosynthetic pathway.
  • the engineered alcohol biosynthetic pathway is a 1 -butanol, a 2-butanol, or an isobutanol biosynthetic pathway.
  • the isobutanol biosynthetic pathway comprises the following substrate to product conversions: pyruvate to acetolactate, acetolactate to 2,3-dihydroxyisovalerate, 2,3- dihydroxyisovalerate to 2-ketoisovalerate, 2-ketoisovalerate to isobutyraldehyde; and, isobutyraldehyde to isobutanol.
  • a fermentation medium comprising a carbon substrate and triglycerides, diglycerides, monoglycerides, and phospholipids, or a mixture thereof; and contacting the fermentation medium with an alcohol-producing microorganism comprising a butanol biosynthetic pathway wherein said microorganism further comprises an engineered polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having lipase activity and which expresses and secretes or displays the polypeptide such that the lipase activity is present in the fermentation medium.
  • the fermentation medium further comprises one or more carboxylic acids.
  • the carbon substrate is derived from biomass.
  • the biomass is corn or sugar cane.
  • the carbon substrate and the triglycerides diglycerides, monoglycerides, and phospholipids are derived from the same biomass.
  • fermentation media comprising an alcohol- producing microorganism comprising a butanol biosynthetic pathway and further comprising an engineered polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having lipase activity which is expressed and secreted or displayed, butyl esters, and butanol.
  • animal feed products comprising a microorganisms described herein.
  • FIG. 1 schematically illustrates an exemplary method and system of the present invention, in which a microorganism is supplied to a fermentation vessel along with carboxylic acid and/or native oil.
  • FIG. 2 depicts example biosynthetic pathways for biosynthesis of isobutanol from pyruvate.
  • FIG. 3 is a map of plasmid pRS423::TEF1 (M4)-Cdl_IP1 ("pNAKI O"; SEQ ID NO: 45; see Example 1 ), bearing the Candida deformans LIP1 lipase under transcriptional control of the constitutive TEF1 (M4) promoter (Nevoigt E, Kohnke J, Fischer CR, Alper H, Stahl U, & Stephanopoulos G (2006), Engineering of promoter replacement cassettes for fine-tuning of gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Appl Environ Microbiol 72:5266-5273) and the CYC1 transcriptional terminator, in a yeast-E. coli shuttle vector.
  • M4 promoter Nevoigt E, Kohnke J, Fischer CR, Alper H, Stahl U, & Stephanopoulos G (2006), Engineering of promoter replacement cassettes for fine-tuning of gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Appl Environ Microbio
  • FIG. 4 is a map of plasmid pRS423::TEF1 (M4)-THIip ("pTVAN2"; SEQ ID NO: 100; see Example 2), bearing the Thermomyces lanuginosus TIan lipase under transcriptional control of the constitutive TEF1 (M4) promoter (Nevoigt E, et al.) and the CYC1 transcriptional terminator, in a yeast-E. coli shuttle vector.
  • M4 constitutive TEF1
  • FIG. 5 is a map of plasmid pRS423::TEF1 (M4)-CalB ("pTVAN3"; SEQ ID NO: ; See Example 7), bearing the Candida antarctica CalB lipase under transcriptional control of the constitutive TEF1 (M4) promoter (Nevoigt E, et al.) and the CYC1 transcriptional terminator, in a yeast-E. coli shuttle vector.
  • M4 constitutive TEF1
  • FIG. 6 is a map of plasmid pYZ090AalsS (SEQ ID NO: 43; see Examples), which bears the ketol-acid reductoisomerase (KARI) enzyme ORF in a yeast-E. coli shuttle vector.
  • KARI ketol-acid reductoisomerase
  • FIG 7. Map of plasmid pBP915 (SEQ ID NO: 44; see Examples 9 and 10), which bears the ORFs encoding the dihydroxyacid dehydratase enzyme and the alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme in a yeast-E. coli shuttle vector.
  • SEQ ID NOs: 1 and 2 are nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for lipase B (“CalB”) from Candida antarctica.
  • SEQ ID NOs: 3 and 4 are nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for lipase 1 (“LIP1 ”) from Candida deformans.
  • SEQ ID NOs: 5 and 6 are nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for TIan lipase (“TIan”) from Thermomyces lanuginosus.
  • SEQ ID NOs: 255 and 256 are nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for lipase 3 ("Iip3") from Aspergillus tubingensis.
  • SEQ ID NOs: 7, 8, 9, and 257 are coding sequences for CalB, LIP1 , TIan, and Iip3 lipases from Candida antarctica, Candida deformans, Thermomyces lanuginosus, and Aspergillus tubingensis, codon-optimized for expression in S. cerevisiae.
  • SEQ ID NOs: 46 and 47 are nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for a CalB variant with the modification N99A.
  • SEQ ID NOs: 48 and 49 are nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for a LIP1 variant with the modification N146A.
  • SEQ ID NOs: 50 and 51 are nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for a LIP1 variant with the modification N167A.
  • SEQ ID NOs: 52 and 53 are nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for a LIP1 variant with the modifications N146A and N167A.
  • SEQ ID NOs: 54 and 55 are nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for a TIan variant with the modification N55A.
  • SEQ ID NOs: 271 and 272 are nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for a Iip3 variant with the modification N59A.
  • SEQ ID NOs: 273 and 274 are nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for a Iip3 variant with the modification N269A.
  • SEQ ID NOs: 275 and 276 are nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for a Iip3 variant with the modifications N59A and N269A.
  • SEQ ID NOs: 241 and 248 are amino acid sequences for lipases from Aspergillus kawachii, Aspergillus niger, Yarrowia lipolytica, Talaromyces thermophilus.
  • SEQ ID Nos: 249 and 254 are amino acid sequences of cell surface anchor domains of S. cerevisiae.
  • SEQ ID NOs: 258 and 259 are the amino acid sequences of alcohol dehydrogenase enzymes from Achromobacter xylosoxidans and Beijerinkia indica.
  • SEQ ID NOs: 260 and 261 are the amino acid sequences of keto- acid decarboxylases from Lactococcus lactis and Listeria grayi.
  • SEQ ID NOs: 262 and 263 are the amino acid sequences of dihydroxyacid dehdratases from Streptococcus mutans and Lactococcus lactis.
  • SEQ ID Nos: 10-45, 56-144, 153-238, 240, 264-270, 277 and 278 are sequences of synthetic constructs and primers described in the Examples. DETAILED DESCRIPTION
  • the terms "comprises,” “comprising,” “includes,” “including,” “has,” “having,” “contains” or “containing,” or any other variation thereof, will be understood to imply the inclusion of a stated integer or group of integers but not the exclusion of any other integer or group of integers.
  • a composition, a mixture, a process, a method, an article, or an apparatus that comprises a list of elements is not necessarily limited to only those elements but can include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such composition, mixture, process, method, article, or apparatus.
  • "or" refers to an inclusive or and not to an exclusive or.
  • a condition A or B is satisfied by any one of the following: A is true (or present) and B is false (or not present), A is false (or not present) and B is true (or present), and both A and B are true (or present).
  • the indefinite articles "a” and “an” preceding an element or component of the invention are intended to be nonrestrictive regarding the number of instances, i.e., occurrences of the element or component. Therefore “a” or “an” should be read to include one or at least one, and the singular word form of the element or component also includes the plural unless the number is obviously meant to be singular.
  • invention or "present invention” as used herein is a non- limiting term and is not intended to refer to any single embodiment of the particular invention but encompasses all possible embodiments as described in the application.
  • the term "about" modifying the quantity of an ingredient or reactant of the invention employed refers to variation in the numerical quantity that can occur, for example, through typical measuring and liquid handling procedures used for making concentrates or solutions in the real world; through inadvertent error in these procedures; through differences in the manufacture, source, or purity of the ingredients employed to make the compositions or to carry out the methods; and the like.
  • the term “about” also encompasses amounts that differ due to different equilibrium conditions for a composition resulting from a particular initial mixture. Whether or not modified by the term “about”, the claims include equivalents to the quantities.
  • the term “about” means within 10% of the reported numerical value, alternatively within 5% of the reported numerical value.
  • Biomass refers to a natural product containing hydrolysable polysaccharides that provide fermentable sugars, including any sugars and starch derived from natural resources such as corn, sugar cane, wheat, cellulosic or lignocellulosic material and materials comprising cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, starch, oligosaccharides, disaccharides and/or monosaccharides, and mixtures thereof. Biomass may also comprise additional components, such as protein and/or lipids. Biomass may be derived from a single source, or biomass can comprise a mixture derived from more than one source; for example, biomass may comprise a mixture of corn cobs and corn stover, or a mixture of grass and leaves.
  • Biomass includes, but is not limited to, bioenergy crops, agricultural residues, municipal solid waste, industrial solid waste, sludge from paper manufacture, yard waste, wood and forestry waste.
  • biomass include, but are not limited to, corn grain, corn cobs, crop residues such as corn husks, corn stover, grasses, wheat, rye, wheat straw, barley, barley straw, hay, rice straw, switchgrass, waste paper, sugar cane bagasse, sorghum, soy, components obtained from milling of grains, trees, branches, roots, leaves, wood chips, sawdust, shrubs and bushes, vegetables, fruits, flowers, animal manure, and mixtures thereof.
  • mash or juice or molasses or hydrolysate may be formed from biomass by any processing known in the art for processing the biomass for purposes of fermentation, such as by milling, treating and/or liquefying and comprises fermentable sugar and may comprise an amount of water.
  • cellulosic and/or lignocellulosic biomass may be processed to obtain a hydrolysate containing fermentable sugars by any method known to one skilled in the art.
  • a low ammonia pretreatment is disclosed in US Patent Application Publication US20070031918A1 , which is herein incorporated by reference.
  • Enzymatic saccharification of cellulosic and/or lignocellulosic biomass typically makes use of an enzyme consortium for breaking down cellulose and hemicellulose to produce a hydrolysate containing sugars including glucose, xylose, and arabinose.
  • Sacharification enzymes suitable for cellulosic and/or lignocellulosic biomass are reviewed in Lynd, L. R., et al. (Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev., 66:506-577, 2002).
  • Mash or juice or molasses or hydrolysate may include feedstock 12 and feedstock slurry 16 as described herein.
  • An aqueous feedstream may be derived or formed from biomass by any processing known in the art for processing the biomass for purposes of fermentation, such as by milling, treating and/or liquefying and comprises fermentable carbon substrate (eg. sugar) and water.
  • An aqueous feedstream may include feedstock 12 and feedstock slurry 16 as described herein.
  • Product alcohol refers to any alcohol that can be produced by a microorganism in a fermentation process that utilizes biomass as a source of fermentable carbon substrate.
  • Product alcohols include, but are not limited to, Ci to Cs alkyl alcohols.
  • the product alcohols are C2 to Cs alkyl alcohols.
  • the product alcohols are C2 to C 5 alkyl alcohols.
  • Ci to C 8 alkyl alcohols include, but are not limited to, methanol, ethanol, propanol, butanol, and pentanol.
  • C2 to Cs alkyl alcohols include, but are not limited to, ethanol, propanol, butanol, and pentanol .
  • Alcohol is also used herein with reference to a product alcohol.
  • butanol refers with specificity to the butanol isomers 1 -butanol (1 -BuOH), 2-butanol (2-BuOH) and/or isobutanol (iBuOH or i-BuOH or l-BUOH, also known as 2-methyl-1 -propanol), either individually or as mixtures thereof.
  • Propanol refers to the propanol isomers isopropanol or 1 -propanol.
  • Pentanol refers to the pentanol isomers 1 - pentanol, 3-methyl-1 -butanol, 2-methyl-1 -butanol, 2, 2-dimethyl-1 -propanol, 3-pentanol, 2-pentanol, 3-methyl-2-butanol, or 2-methyl-2-butanol.
  • ISPR In situ Product Removal
  • “Fermentable carbon source” or “fermentable carbon substrate” as used herein means a carbon source capable of being metabolized by the microorganisms disclosed herein for the production of fermentative alcohol.
  • Suitable fermentable carbon sources include, but are not limited to, monosaccharides, such as glucose or fructose; disaccharides, such as lactose or sucrose; oligosaccharides; polysaccharides, such as starch or cellulose; one carbon substrates including methane; and mixtures thereof.
  • Feedstock as used herein means a feed in a fermentation process, the feed containing a fermentable carbon source with or without undissolved solids, and where applicable, the feed containing the fermentable carbon source before or after the fermentable carbon source has been liberated from starch or obtained from the breakdown of complex sugars by further processing, such as by liquefaction, saccharification, or other process.
  • Feedstock includes or is derived from a biomass. Suitable feedstocks include, but are not limited to, rye, wheat, corn, cane and mixtures thereof.
  • Undissolved solids as used herein means non-fermentable portions of feedstock, for example germ, fiber, and gluten.
  • “Fermentation broth” as used herein means the mixture of water, sugars, dissolved solids, microorganisms producing alcohol, product alcohol and all other constituents of the material held in the fermentation vessel in which product alcohol is being made by the reaction of sugars to alcohol, water and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) by the microorganisms present. From time to time, as used herein the term “fermentation medium” and “fermented mixture” can be used synonymously with “fermentation broth”.
  • Fusion vessel as used herein means the vessel in which the fermentation reaction by which product alcohol such as butanol is made from sugars is carried out.
  • the term "effective titer" as used herein, refers to the total amount of a particular alcohol (e.g., butanol) produced by fermentation or alcohol equivalent of the alcohol ester produced by alcohol esterification per liter of fermentation medium.
  • the effective titer of butanol in a unit volume of a fermentation includes: (i) the amount of butanol in the fermentation medium; (ii) the amount of butanol recovered from the organic extractant; (iii) the amount of butanol recovered from the gas phase, if gas stripping is used, and (iv) the alcohol equivalent of the butanol ester in either the organic or aqueous phase.
  • saccharification as used herein means the break down of oligosaccharides into monosaccharides.
  • Simultaneous saccharification and fermentation means fermentation and saccharification occur concurrently in the same vessel.
  • saccharification enzyme means one or more enzymes that are capable of hydrolyzing polysaccharides and/or ologosaccharides, e.g, alpha-1 ,4-glucosidic bonds of glycogen, starch. Saccharification enzymes may include enzymes capable of hydrolyzing cellulosic or lignocellulosic materials as well.
  • lipase activity means the enzymatic activity of catalyzing the hydrolysis of ester chemical bonds in water-insoluble or poorly water soluble lipid substrates. Lipases are a subclass of the esterases, and as such, “lipase activity” also means the enzymatic activity of catalyzing the hydrolysis of an ester into a carboxylic acid and an alcohol, and, as used herein, “lipase activity” also means the enzymatic activity of esterifying alcohol and carboxylic acid into an alcohol ester of a carboxylic acid.
  • glycosylation is the enzymatic addition of carbohydrate molecules to biological macromolecules such as proteins, which can occur when proteins are targeted for secretion out of the cell.
  • the carbohydrates are attached to the hydroxyl groups of serine, threonine, or tyrosine residues.
  • N-glycosylation of proteins the carbohydrates are attached to the amide side chain of asparagine (N) residues in the consensus sequence NXS/T, where X is any amino acid and S/T is serine or threonine.
  • Glycosylated refers to a protein molecule with carbohydrates covalently attached.
  • Liquefaction vessel as used herein means the vessel in which liquefaction is carried out. Liquefaction is the process in which oligosaccharides are liberated from the feedstock. In embodiments where the feedstock is corn, oligosaccharides are liberated from the corn starch content during liquefaction.
  • separation as used herein is synonymous with “recovery” and refers to removing a chemical compound from an initial mixture to obtain the compound in greater purity or at a higher concentration than the purity or concentration of the compound in the initial mixture.
  • water-immiscible or “insoluble” refer to a chemical component, such as an extractant or solvent, which is incapable of mixing with an aqueous solution, such as a fermentation broth, in such a manner as to form one liquid phase.
  • Extract or "ISPR extractant” as used herein means an organic solvent used to extract any product alcohol such as butanol, or used to extract any product alcohol ester produced by a catalyst from a product alcohol and a carboxylic acid or lipid. From time to time, as used herein the term “solvent” may be used synonymously with “extractant”. For the processes described herein, extractants are water-immiscible.
  • Native oil refers to lipids obtained from plants (e.g., biomass) or animals.
  • Plant-derived oil refers to lipids obtained from plants in particular. From time to time, “lipids” may be used synonymously with “oil” and “acyl glycerides.”
  • Native oils include, but are not limited to, tallow, corn, canola, capric/caprylic triglycerides, castor, coconut, cottonseed, fish, jojoba, lard, linseed, neetsfoot, oiticica, palm, peanut, rapeseed, rice, safflower, soya, sunflower, tung, jatropha and vegetable oil blends.
  • organic phase refers to the nonaqueous phase of a biphasic mixture obtained by contacting a fermentation broth with a water-immiscible organic extractant.
  • fatty acid refers to a carboxylic acid (e.g., aliphatic monocarboxylic acid) having C 4 to C28 carbon atoms (most commonly C12 to C 24 carbon atoms), which is either saturated or unsaturated.
  • Fatty acids may also be branched or unbranched.
  • Fatty acids may be derived from, or contained in esterified form, in an animal or vegetable fat, oil, or wax.
  • Fatty acids may occur naturally in the form of glycerides in fats and fatty oils or may be obtained by hydrolysis of fats or by synthesis.
  • the term fatty acid may describe a single chemical species or a mixture of fatty acids.
  • Fatty acids may comprise a mixture of both protonated and unprotonated fatty acids, wherein the unprotonated fatty acids are salts (e.g., sodium, potassium, ammonium or calcium ion salts) of unprotonated fatty acids.
  • the term fatty acid also encompasses free fatty acids.
  • fatty alcohol refers to an alcohol having an aliphatic chain of C to C22 carbon atoms, which is either saturated or unsaturated.
  • fatty aldehyde refers to an aldehyde having an aliphatic chain of C 4 to C22 carbon atoms, which is either saturated or unsaturated.
  • a carboxylic acid may be in the form of the protonated carboxylic acid, or in the form of a salt of a carboxylic acid (for example, an ammonium, sodium or potassium salt), or as a mixture of protonated carboxylic acid and salt of a carboxylic acid.
  • carboxylic acid may describe a single chemical species (e.g., oleic acid), or a mixture of carboxylic acids as can be produced, for example, by the hydrolysis of biomass-derived fatty-acid esters or triglycerides, diglycerides, monoglyerides and phopholipids.
  • butanol biosynthetic pathway or “butanol production pathway” as used herein refers to an enzyme pathway to produce 1 - butanol, 2-butanol, or isobutanol.
  • 1 -butanol biosynthetic pathway or "1 -butanol production pathway” as used herein refers to an enzyme pathway to produce 1 - butanol from acetyl-coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA).
  • 2-butanol biosynthetic pathway or "2-butanol production pathway” as used herein refers to an enzyme pathway to produce 2- butanol from pyruvate.
  • isobutanol biosynthetic pathway or “isobutanol production pathway” as used herein refers to an enzyme pathway to produce isobutanol from pyruvate.
  • alcohol biosynthetic pathway or "alcohol production pathway” as used herein refers to an enzymatic pathway to convert a carbon substrate to an alcohol.
  • a recombinant host cell comprising an "engineered alcohol production pathway” refers to a host cell containing a modified pathway that produces alcohol in a manner different than that normally present in the host cell. Such differences include production of an alcohol not typically produced by the host cell, or increased or more efficient production.
  • gene refers to a nucleic acid fragment that is capable of being expressed as a specific protein, optionally including regulatory sequences preceding (5' non-coding sequences) and following (3' non- coding sequences) the coding sequence.
  • Native gene refers to a gene as found in nature with its own regulatory sequences.
  • Chimeric gene refers to any gene that is not a native gene (i.e, it is modified from its native state or is from another source), comprising regulatory and coding sequences that are not found together in nature. Accordingly, a chimeric gene may comprise regulatory sequences and coding sequences that are derived from different sources, or regulatory sequences and coding sequences derived from the same source, but arranged in a manner different than that found in nature.
  • Endogenous gene refers to a native gene in its natural location in the genome of an organism.
  • a “foreign gene” or “heterologous gene” refers to a gene not normally found as a native gene in the host organism, but that is introduced into the host organism by gene transfer.
  • Foreign genes can comprise native genes inserted into a non-native organism, or chimeric genes.
  • coding region refers to a DNA sequence that codes for a specific amino acid sequence.
  • Suitable regulatory sequences refer to nucleotide sequences located upstream (5' non- coding sequences), within, or downstream (3' non-coding sequences) of a coding sequence, and which influence the transcription, RNA processing or stability, or translation of the associated coding sequence. Regulatory sequences may include promoters, translation leader sequences, introns, polyadenylation recognition sequences, RNA processing sites, effector binding sites and stem-loop structures.
  • polynucleotide is intended to encompass a singular nucleic acid as well as plural nucleic acids, and refers to a nucleic acid molecule or construct, e.g., messenger RNA (mRNA) or plasmid DNA (pDNA).
  • mRNA messenger RNA
  • pDNA plasmid DNA
  • a "gene” is a polynucleotide.
  • a polynucleotide can contain the nucleotide sequence of the full-length gene or cDNA sequence, or a fragment thereof, including the untranslated 5' and 3' sequences and the coding sequences.
  • the polynucleotide can be composed of any polyribonucleotide or polydeoxyribonucleotide, which may be unmodified RNA or DNA or modified RNA or DNA (e.g. heterologous DNA).
  • polynucleotides can be composed of single- and double-stranded DNA, DNA that is a mixture of single- and double-stranded regions, single- and double-stranded RNA, and RNA that is mixture of single- and double-stranded regions, hybrid molecules comprising DNA and RNA that may be single-stranded or, more typically, double-stranded or a mixture of single- and double-stranded regions.
  • Polynucleotide embraces chemically, enzymatically, or metabolically modified forms.
  • Engineerered polynucleotide refers to a polynucleotide that has been modified from a form found in nature or that is introduced into a host organism by gene transfer such as by transformation. Such modification includes, for example, linking two sequences not found linked in nature, such as operably linking a coding sequence with a promoter not found operably linked with the coding sequence in nature, or linking two coding sequences together to create a chimeric coding sequence. Such modification also includes creating one or more nucleotide changes, including base substitutions, insertions, or deletions, to a polynucleotide found in nature.
  • a polynucleotide sequence may be referred to as "isolated,” in which it has been removed from its native environment.
  • a heterologous polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide or polypeptide fragment having dihydroxy-acid dehydratase activity contained in a vector is considered isolated for the purposes of the present invention.
  • Further examples of an isolated polynucleotide include recombinant polynucleotides maintained in heterologous host cells or purified (partially or substantially) polynucleotides in solution. Isolated polynucleotides or nucleic acids according to the present invention further include such molecules produced synthetically.
  • An isolated polynucleotide fragment in the form of a polymer of DNA may be comprised of one or more segments of cDNA, genomic DNA or synthetic DNA.
  • polypeptide is intended to encompass a singular “polypeptide” as well as plural “polypeptides,” and refers to a molecule composed of monomers (amino acids) linearly linked by amide bonds (also known as peptide bonds).
  • polypeptide refers to any chain or chains of two or more amino acids, and does not refer to a specific length of the product.
  • polypeptides include peptides, dipeptides, tripeptides, oligopeptides, "protein, " "amino acid chain,” or any other term used to refer to a chain or chains of two or more amino acids, and the term “polypeptide” may be used instead of, or interchangeably with any of these terms.
  • a polypeptide may be derived from a natural biological source or produced by recombinant technology, but is not necessarily translated from a designated nucleic acid sequence. It may be generated in any manner, including by chemical synthesis.
  • an “isolated” polypeptide or a fragment, variant, or derivative thereof is intended a polypeptide that is not in its natural milieu. No particular level of purification is required.
  • an isolated polypeptide can be removed from its native or natural environment.
  • Recombinantly produced polypeptides and proteins expressed in host cells are considered isolated for purposed of the invention, as are native or recombinant polypeptides which have been separated, fractionated, or partially or substantially purified by any suitable technique.
  • recombinant microorganism refers to microorganisms, such as bacteria or yeast, that are modified by use of recombinant DNA techniques, such as by engineering a host cell to comprise a biosynthetic pathway such as butanol.
  • cognate degeneracy refers to the nature in the genetic code permitting variation of the nucleotide sequence without effecting the amino acid sequence of an encoded polypeptide.
  • the skilled artisan is well aware of the "codon-bias" exhibited by a specific host cell in usage of nucleotide codons to specify a given amino acid. Therefore, when synthesizing a gene for improved expression in a host cell, it is desirable to design the gene such that its frequency of codon usage approaches the frequency of preferred codon usage of the host cell.
  • codon-optimized refers to genes or coding regions of nucleic acid molecules for transformation of various hosts, refers to the alteration of codons in the gene or coding regions of the nucleic acid molecules to reflect the typical codon usage of the host organism without altering the polypeptide encoded by the DNA. Such optimization includes replacing at least one, or more than one, or a significant number, of codons with one or more codons that are more frequently used in the genes of that organism. Deviations in the nucleotide sequence that comprise the codons encoding the amino acids of any polypeptide chain allow for variations in the sequence coding for the gene.
  • each codon consists of three nucleotides, and the nucleotides comprising DNA are restricted to four specific bases, there are 64 possible combinations of nucleotides, 61 of which encode amino acids (the remaining three codons encode signals ending translation).
  • the "genetic code” which shows which codons encode which amino acids is reproduced herein as Table 1 .
  • many amino acids are designated by more than one codon.
  • the amino acids alanine and proline are coded for by four triplets, serine and arginine by six, whereas tryptophan and methionine are coded by just one triplet. This degeneracy allows for DNA base composition to vary over a wide range without altering the amino acid sequence of the proteins encoded by the DNA.
  • Codon preference or codon bias, differences in codon usage between organisms, is afforded by degeneracy of the genetic code, and is well documented among many organisms. Codon bias often correlates with the efficiency of translation of messenger RNA (mRNA), which is in turn believed to be dependent on, inter alia, the properties of the codons being translated and the availability of particular transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules.
  • mRNA messenger RNA
  • tRNA transfer RNA
  • genes can be tailored for optimal gene expression in a given organism based on codon optimization.
  • Codon usage tables are readily available, for example, at the "Codon Usage Database" available at http://www.kazusa.or.jp/codon/ (visited March 20, 2008), and these tables can be adapted in a number of ways. See Nakamura, Y., et al. Nucl.
  • Table 2 has been adapted so that frequencies are calculated for each amino acid, rather than for all 64 codons.
  • Randomly assigning codons at an optimized frequency to encode a given polypeptide sequence can be done manually by calculating codon frequencies for each amino acid, and then assigning the codons to the polypeptide sequence randomly.
  • various algorithms and computer software programs are readily available to those of ordinary skill in the art. For example, the "EditSeq” function in the Lasergene Package, available from DNAstar, Inc., Madison, Wl, the backtranslation function in the VectorNTI Suite, available from InforMax, Inc., Bethesda, MD, and the "backtranslate” function in the GCG-Wisconsin Package, available from Accelrys, Inc., San Diego, CA.
  • Codon-optimized coding regions can be designed by various methods known to those skilled in the art including software packages such as "synthetic gene designer"
  • a polynucleotide or nucleic acid fragment is "hybridizable" to another nucleic acid fragment, such as a cDNA, genomic DNA, or RNA molecule, when a single-stranded form of the nucleic acid fragment can anneal to the other nucleic acid fragment under the appropriate conditions of temperature and solution ionic strength.
  • Hybridization and washing conditions are well known and exemplified in Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E. F. and Maniatis, T. Molecular Cloning; A Laboratory Manual, 2 nd ed., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Cold Spring Harbor, NY (1989), particularly Chapter 1 1 and Table 1 1 .1 therein.
  • Stringency conditions can be adjusted to screen for moderately similar fragments (such as homologous sequences from distantly related organisms), to highly similar fragments (such as genes that duplicate functional enzymes from closely related organisms).
  • Post-hybridization washes determine stringency conditions.
  • One set of preferred conditions uses a series of washes starting with 6X SSC, 0.5% SDS at room temperature for 15 min, then repeated with 2X SSC, 0.5% SDS at 45 °C for 30 min, and then repeated twice with 0.2X SSC, 0.5% SDS at 50 °C for 30 min.
  • a more preferred set of stringent conditions uses higher temperatures in which the washes are identical to those above except for the temperature of the final two 30 min washes in 0.2X SSC, 0.5% SDS was increased to 60 °C.
  • Another preferred set of highly stringent conditions uses two final washes in 0.1X SSC, 0.1 % SDS at 65 °C.
  • An additional set of stringent conditions include hybridization at 0.1 X SSC, 0.1 % SDS, 65 °C and washes with 2X SSC, 0.1 % SDS followed by 0.1 X SSC, 0.1 % SDS, for example.
  • Hybridization requires that the two nucleic acids contain complementary sequences, although depending on the stringency of the hybridization, mismatches between bases are possible.
  • the appropriate stringency for hybridizing nucleic acids depends on the length of the nucleic acids and the degree of complementation, variables well known in the art. The greater the degree of similarity or homology between two nucleotide sequences, the greater the value of T m for hybrids of nucleic acids having those sequences.
  • the relative stability (corresponding to higher T m ) of nucleic acid hybridizations decreases in the following order: RNA:RNA, DNA:RNA, DNA:DNA.
  • the length for a hybridizable nucleic acid is at least about 10 nucleotides.
  • a minimum length for a hybridizable nucleic acid is at least about 15 nucleotides; more preferably at least about 20 nucleotides; and most preferably the length is at least about 30 nucleotides.
  • the temperature and wash solution salt concentration may be adjusted as necessary according to factors such as length of the probe.
  • a "substantial portion" of an amino acid or nucleotide sequence is that portion comprising enough of the amino acid sequence of a polypeptide or the nucleotide sequence of a gene to putatively identify that polypeptide or gene, either by manual evaluation of the sequence by one skilled in the art, or by computer-automated sequence comparison and identification using algorithms such as Basic Local Alignment Search Tool ("BLAST"; Altschul, S. F., et al., J. Mol. Biol., 215:403-410 (1993)). In general, a sequence of ten or more contiguous amino acids or thirty or more nucleotides is necessary in order to putatively identify a polypeptide or nucleic acid sequence as homologous to a known protein or gene.
  • BLAST Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
  • gene specific oligonucleotide probes comprising 20-30 contiguous nucleotides may be used in sequence-dependent methods of gene identification (e.g., Southern hybridization) and isolation (e.g., in situ hybridization of bacterial colonies or bacteriophage plaques).
  • sequence-dependent methods of gene identification e.g., Southern hybridization
  • isolation e.g., in situ hybridization of bacterial colonies or bacteriophage plaques.
  • 12-15 bases may be used as amplification primers in PCR in order to obtain a particular nucleic acid fragment comprising the primers.
  • a "substantial portion" of a nucleotide sequence comprises enough of the sequence to specifically identify and/or isolate a nucleic acid fragment comprising the sequence.
  • the instant specification teaches the complete amino acid and nucleotide sequence encoding particular proteins. The skilled artisan, having the benefit of the sequences as reported herein, may now use all or a substantial portion of the disclosed sequences for purposes known to those skilled in this art. Accordingly, the instant invention comprises the complete sequences as provided herein, as well as substantial portions of those sequences as defined above.
  • adenosine is complementary to thymine and cytosine is complementary to guanine.
  • identity is a relationship between two or more polypeptide sequences or two or more polynucleotide sequences, as determined by comparing the sequences.
  • identity also means the degree of sequence relatedness between polypeptide or polynucleotide sequences, as the case may be, as determined by the match between strings of such sequences.
  • Identity and similarity can be readily calculated by known methods, including but not limited to those disclosed in: 1 .) Computational Molecular Biology (Lesk, A. M., Ed.) Oxford University: NY (1988); 2.) Biocomputing: Informatics and Genome Projects (Smith, D.
  • Preferred methods to determine identity are designed to give the best match between the sequences tested. Methods to determine identity and similarity are codified in publicly available computer programs. Sequence alignments and percent identity calculations may be performed using the MegAlignTM program of the LASERGENE bioinformatics computing suite (DNASTAR Inc., Madison, Wl). Multiple alignment of the sequences is performed using the "Clustal method of alignment” which encompasses several varieties of the algorithm including the "Clustal V method of alignment” corresponding to the alignment method labeled Clustal V (disclosed by Higgins and Sharp, CABIOS. 5:151 -153 (1989); Higgins, D.G. et al., Comput. Appl.
  • Clustal W method of alignment is available and corresponds to the alignment method labeled Clustal W (described by Higgins and Sharp, CABIOS. 5:151 -153 (1989); Higgins, D.G. et al., Comput. Appl. Biosci. 8:189-191 (1992)) and found in the MegAlignTM v6.1 program of the LASERGENE bioinformatics computing suite (DNASTAR Inc.).
  • polypeptides including variants or polypeptides from other species, wherein such polypeptides have the same or similar function or activity.
  • percent identities include, but are not limited to: 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, or 95%, or any integer percentage from 55% to 100% may be useful in describing the present invention, such as 55%, 56%, 57%, 58%, 59%, 60%, 61 %, 62%, 63%, 64%, 65%, 66%, 67%, 68%, 69%, 70%, 71 %, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81 %, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91 %, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98% or 99%.
  • Suitable nucleic acid fragments not only have the above homologies but typically encode a polypeptide having at least 50 amino acids, preferably at least 100 amino acids, more preferably at least 150 amino acids, still more preferably at least 200 amino acids, and most preferably at least 250 amino acids.
  • sequence analysis software refers to any computer algorithm or software program that is useful for the analysis of nucleotide or amino acid sequences.
  • Sequence analysis software may be commercially available or independently developed. Typical sequence analysis software will include, but is not limited to: 1 .) the GCG suite of programs (Wisconsin Package Version 9.0, Genetics Computer Group (GCG), Madison, Wl); 2.) BLASTP, BLASTN, BLASTX (Altschul et al., J. Mol. Biol., 215:403-410 (1990)); 3.) DNASTAR (DNASTAR, Inc.
  • the genetic manipulations of a recombinant host cell disclosed herein can be performed using standard genetic techniques and screening and can be made in any host cell that is suitable to genetic manipulation (Methods in Yeast Genetics, 2005, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, pp. 201 -202).
  • the recombinant host cell is E. coli.
  • a recombinant host cell disclosed herein can be any yeast or fungal host useful for genetic modification and recombinant gene expression.
  • a recombinant host cell can be a member of the genera Zygosaccharomyces, Schizosaccharomyces, Dekkera, Issatchenkia, Torulopsis, Brettanomyces, Torulaspora, Hanseniaspora, Kluyveromyces, and some species of Candida.
  • a recombinant host cell can be Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
  • recombinant host cells which are able to express and secrete lipase enzymes into a fermentation medium produce a catalyst that will catalyze the esterification of alcohol and carboxylic acid.
  • Such host cells represent an improvement to host cells used in fermentative production of alcohols because the esterification of the alcohol may allow the cells to produce alcohol with greater efficiency, or to produce an amount of alcohol in excess of the amount of alcohol that would exert a toxic effect on the host cells.
  • use of such recombinant microorganisms can reduce or eliminate the need to add purified lipase enzyme to a fermentation medium to carry out the processes described herein, which may provide cost and operational advantages.
  • fermentative production of alcohols typically utilizes a renewable biomass feedstock to supply the carbon substrate which a recombinant microorganism converts to product alcohol.
  • feedstocks can contain an amount of triglycerides.
  • the triglycerides may build up over time, decreasing the partition coefficient and recyclability of the extractant.
  • the lipases secreted by the recombinant host cells provided herein can advantageously hydrolyze the triglycerides into free fatty acids which may be substrates for esterification and which may also have less effect on the partition coefficient of an extractant for product alcohols.
  • Recombinant host cells disclosed herein comprise polynucleotides having polypeptides having lipase activity.
  • Examples of lipase polynucleotides and polypeptides and the organisms from which they are derived are provided in Table 3.
  • suitable lipase sequences may be derived from any source, including, for example, Absidia, Achromobacter, Aeromonas, Alcaligenes, Alternaria, Aspergillus, Achromobacter, Aureobasidium, Bacillus, Beauveria, Brochothrix, Candida, Chromobacter, Coprinus, Fusarium, Geotricum, Hansenula, Humicola, Hyphozyma, Lactobacillus, Metarhizium, Mucor, Nectria, Neurospora, Paecilomyces, Penicillium, Pseudomonas, Rhizoctonia, Rhizomucor, Rhizopus, Rhodosporidium, Rhodotorula, Saccharomyces, Sus, Sporobolomyces, Thermomyces, Thiarosporella, Trichoderma, Verticillium, and/or a strain of Yarrowia.
  • the source of the lipase is selected from the group consisting of Absidia blakesleena, Absidia corymbifera, Achromobacter iophagus, Alcaligenes sp., Alternaria brassiciola, Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus kawachii, Aspergillus tubingensis, Aureobasidium pullulans, Bacillus pumilus, Bacillus strearothermophilus, Bacillus subtilis, Brochothrix thermosohata, Candida cylindracea (Candida rugosa), Candida paralipolytica, Candida antarctica lipase A, Candida antarctica lipase B, Candida ernobii, Candida deformans, Candida thermophila, Chromobacter viscosum, Coprinus cinerius, Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium solani, Fusarium solani pisi, Fusarium
  • thermoidea Humicola insolens, Lactobacillus curvatus, Rhizopus niveus, Rhizopus oryzae, Penicillium cyclopium, Penicillium crustosum, Penicillium expansum, Penicillium sp. I, Penicillium sp. II, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Pseudomonas alcaligenes, Pseudomonas cepacia (syn.
  • Pseudomonas fluorescens Pseudomonas fragi, Pseudomonas maltophilia, Pseudomonas mendocina, Pseudomonas mephitica lipolytica, Pseudomonas alcaligenes, Pseudomonas plantari, Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes, Pseudomonas putida, Pseudomonas stutzeri, and Pseudomonas wisconsinensis, Rhizoctonia solani, Rhizomucor miehei, Rhizopus japonicus, Rhizopus microsporus, Rhizopus nodosus, Rhodosporidium toruloides, Rhodotorula glutinis, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Sporobolomyces shibatanus, Sus scrofa
  • the lipase is selected from the group consisting of Thermomyces lanuginosus lipase, Aspergillus sp. lipase, Aspergillus niger lipase, Aspergillus tubingensis Iip3, Candida antarctica lipase B, Pseudomonas sp. lipase, Penicillium roqueforti lipase, Penicillium camembertii lipase, Mucor javanicus lipase, Burkholderia cepacia lipase, Alcaligenes sp.
  • lipase Candida rugosa lipase, Candida parapsilosis lipase, Candida deformans lipases, lipases A and B from Geotrichum candidum, Neurospora crassa lipase, Nectria haematococca lipase, Fusarium heterosporum lipase Rhizopus delemar lipase, Rhizomucor miehei lipase, Rhizopus arrhizus lipase, and Rhizopus oryzae lipase.
  • polypeptides with lipase activity such as the polynucleotide sequences in the table above or derived from the indicated sources can be codon-optimized for the recombinant host cell. Further, one of skill in the art will appreciate that truncations and conservative substitutions can be made to the polypeptide sequences given without eliminating the lipase activity of the polypeptide. Accordingly, provided herein are polypeptides having at least about 75%, at least about 80%, at least about 90%, at least about 95%, at least about 97%, or at least about 99% identity to the sequences provided and active fragments thereof. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding such polypeptides.
  • the polypeptide having lipase activity may be expressed and secreted by the microorganism such that the lipase has activity in the fermentation medium during the production of a product alcohol.
  • polypeptides expressed on the surface of a microorganism such as cell wall proteins which are processed through the secretory pathway, will be considered to be secreted since the activity of a polypeptide expressed on the cell surface can be available external to the cell.
  • the secreted lipase is expressed on the surface of the microorganism.
  • Surface expression of proteins is known in the art, as is modification of polypeptides to target them for surface expression. (Washida, M., S.
  • a polypeptide provided herein is fused to a domain of a protein which targets the polypeptide to the cell surface
  • polypeptides provided herein are fused to a domain of Flol p, Pir4, Sed1 , Sagl p, Cwp2, or Aga2.
  • polypeptides provided herein are fused to a protein, or a fragment of a protein, having a GPI anchor motif.
  • GPI anchor motifs are known to those of skill in the art and can be predicted by bioinformatics, for example by using prediction engines (for example, the prediction engine online at mendel.imp.ac.at/gpi/fungi_server.html, accessed March 19, 2012). (Eisenhaber B., et al.
  • the lipase polypeptide sequences provided herein may be modified such that glycosylation, including, but not limited to, N- glycosylation, is reduced or eliminated. Such modification can be carried out by mutating the polynucleotide encoding the polypeptide such that one or more glycosylation motifs is removed.
  • the glycosylation motif is an N-glycosylation motif.
  • the glycosylation motif is NXS/T.
  • the polypeptide having lipase activity does not contain the glycosylation motif NXS/T.
  • Glycosylation can be reduced or eliminated by any means known in the art.
  • inhibitors of glycosylation such as tunicamycin may be employed or the glycosylation mechanism in a host cell may be altered.
  • glycosylation motifs can be removed by site-directed mutagenesis using techniques known in the art.
  • site-directed mutagenesis can be carried out using commercially available kits (for example, the QuikChange II XL site directed mutagenesis kit, Catalog # 200524, Stratagene, La Jolla, CA).
  • Site-direct mutagenesis can be carried out by the method of Kunkel, involving incorporation of uracil into the template to be mutated (Kunkel TA (1985) Rapid and efficient site-specific mutagenesis without phenotypic selection. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 82:488-492), or by the method of phosphorothioate incorporation (Taylor JW, Ott J, & Eckstein F (1985), The rapid generation of oligonucleotide- directed mutations at high frequency using phosphorothioate-modified DNA. Nucleic Acids Res 13:8765-8785), or by other methods, in vitro and in vivo, known in the art. Primer design for target sites for mutagenesis is well-known in the art, and sequence analysis such as multiple sequence alignment to identify target sites for mutagenesis is likewise well-known.
  • mutagenesis is carried out such that the N of the motif is substituted with any other naturally occurring amino acid (A, R, D,
  • the N of the motif is substituted with A.
  • mutagenesis is carried out such that the S/T of the motif is replaced with any other naturally occurring amino acid (A, R, N, D, C, E, Q, G, H, I, L, K, M, F, P, W, Y, or V; see Table 1 ).
  • both the N and the S/T are replaced with any other naturally occurring amino acid (A, R, J, D, C, E, Q, G, H, I, L, K, M, F, P, W, Y, or V, or S or T at the N residue; A, R, J, D, C, E, Q, G, H, I, L, K, M, F, P, W, Y, or V,S or N at a T residue; A, R, J, D, C, E, Q, G, H, I, L, K, M, F, P, W, Y, or V,S or N at a T residue; A, R, J,
  • the glycosylation motif NXS/T is replaced with the motif AXS/T.
  • C. deformans contains two glycosylation sequences, NIS at codon 146 and NNT at 167. In embodiments, one or both of those glycosylation sites is targeted for substitution and the indicated glycosylation sites are replaced with AIS and ANT, respectively.
  • C. antarctica has NDT at 99, and T. lanuginosus has NIT at 55.
  • the indicated glycosylation sites are mutated such that the sequences are ADT and AIT at the indicated positions.
  • glycosylation sites lipase open reading frames from C. deformans, C. antarctica, and T. lanuginosus, and examples of mutations that abolish those sites.
  • the first column lists the position in the polypeptide at which the glycosylation site occurs.
  • the second column gives the glycosylation sequence at that position, and the DNA sequence encoding it in the codon-optimized polynucleotide.
  • the third column gives the polypeptide sequence at that position after mutagenesis, and the DNA sequence required to effect that amino acid change.
  • nucleic acid and amino acid sequences of Candida deformans lipase with both of the modifications listed in Table 6 are given as SEQ ID NOs: 52 and 53.
  • nucleic acid and amino acid sequences of an A. tubingensis lipase with both of the modifications listed in Table 6 are given as SEQ ID NOs: 275 and 276.
  • polypeptides having at least about 75%, at least about 80%, at least about 90%, at least about 95%, at least about 97%, or at least about 99% identity to the sequences provided and active fragments thereof. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding such polypeptides. One of skill in the art will also appreciate that active variants of the sequences provided herein can be created using techniques known in the art and or described herein for use in the methods and compositions described herein.
  • Alcohol-producing microorganisms are known in the art. For example, fermentative oxidation of methane by methanotrophic bacteria
  • Recombinant microorganisms which produce alcohol are also known in the art (for example, Ohta et al.,1991 , Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 57:893-900; Underwood et al.,2002, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68:1071 - 1081 ; Shen and Liao, 2008, Metab. Eng. 10:312-320; Hahnai et al., 2007,Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 73:7814-7818; US Patent No. 5,514,583, US Patent No. 5,712,133; PCT Application Pub. No. W01995028476; Feldmann et al., 1992, Appl. Microbiol.
  • Recombinant microorganisms capable of producing butanol are known in the art, and certain suitable microorganisms capable of producing butanol are described herein.
  • Recombinant microorganisms to produce butanol via a biosynthetic pathway can include a member of the genera Clostridium, Zymomonas, Escherichia, Salmonella, Serratia, Erwinia, Klebsiella, Shigella, Rhodococcus, Pseudomonas, Bacillus, Lactobacillus, Enterococcus, Alcaligenes, Klebsiella, Paenibacillus, Arthrobacter, Corynebacterium, Brevibacterium, Schizosaccharomyces, Kluyveromyces, Yarrowia, Pichia, Candida, Hansenula, Issatchenkia, or Saccharomyces.
  • recombinant microorganisms can be selected from the group consisting of Escherichia coli, Lactobacillus plantarum, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
  • the recombinant microorganism is a yeast.
  • the recombinant microorganism is crabtree-positive yeast selected from Saccharomyces, Zygosaccharomyces, Schizosaccharomyces, Dekkera,
  • Species of crabtree-positive yeast include, but are not limited to, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Saccharomyces kluyveri, Schizosaccharomyces pombe,
  • Saccharomyces bayanus Saccharomyces mikitae
  • Saccharomyces paradoxus Zygosaccharomyces rouxii
  • Candida glabrata the host cell is Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
  • S. cerevisiae yeast are known in the art and are available from a variety of sources, including, but not limited to, American Type Culture Collection (Rockville, MD), Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (CBS) Fungal Biodiversity Centre, LeSaffre, Gert Strand AB, Ferm Solutions, North American Bioproducts, Martrex, and Lallemand. S.
  • cerevisiae yeast include, but are not limited to, BY4741 , CEN.PK 1 13-7D, Ethanol Red® yeast, Ferm ProTM yeast, Bio-Ferm® XR yeast, Gert Strand Prestige Batch Turbo alcohol yeast, Gert Strand Pot Distillers yeast, Gert Strand Distillers Turbo yeast, FerMaxTM Green yeast, FerMaxTM Gold yeast, Thermosacc® yeast, BG-1 , PE-2, CAT-1 , CBS7959, CBS7960, and CBS7961 .
  • recombinant microbial production hosts comprising a 1 -butanol biosynthetic pathway (U.S. Patent Application Publication No. US20080182308A1 , herein incorporated by reference), a 2-butanol biosynthetic pathway (U.S. Patent Publication Nos. US 20070259410A1 , herein incorporated by reference and US 20070292927, herein incorporated by reference), and an isobutanol biosynthetic pathway (U.S. Patent Publication No. US 20070092957, herein incorporated by reference) have been described.
  • microorganisms comprise a butanol biosynthetic pathway.
  • at least one, at least two, at least three, or at least four polypeptides catalyzing substrate to product conversions of a pathway are encoded by heterologous polynucleotides in the microorganism.
  • all polypeptides catalyzing substrate to product conversions of a pathway are encoded by heterologous polynucleotides in the microorganism.
  • the microorganism comprises a reduction or elimination of pyruvate decarboxylase activity. Microorganisms substantially free of pyruvate decarboxylase activity are described in US Application
  • acetohydroxy acid dehydratase also called dihydroxy-acid dehydratase (DHAD)
  • DHAD dihydroxy-acid dehydratase
  • Ketol-acid reductoisomerase (KARI) enzymes are described in U.S. Patent Appl. Pub. Nos. 20080261230 A1 , 20090163376, 20100197519, and PCT Appl. Pub. No. WO/201 1/041415, all incorporated by reference herein.
  • Keto-acid decarboxylases include those from Lactococcus lactis (SEQ ID NO: 260) and Listeria grayi (SEQ ID NO: 261 )
  • the isobutanol biosynthetic pathway comprises the following substrate to product conversions:
  • acetolactate synthase a catalyzed, for example, by acetolactate synthase
  • valine a-ketoisovalerate to valine, which may be catalyzed, for example, by transaminase or valine dehydrogenase;
  • valine to isobutylamine which may be catalyzed, for example, by valine decarboxylase;
  • the isobutanol biosynthetic pathway comprises the following substrate to product conversions:
  • acetolactate which may be catalyzed, for example, by acetolactate synthase;
  • acetolactate to 2,3-dihydroxyisovalerate which may be catalyzed, for example, by acetohydroxy acid reductoisomerase;
  • the isobutanol biosynthetic pathway comprises the substrate to product conversions shown as steps k, g, and e in Figure 2.
  • Biosynthetic pathways for the production of 1 -butanol include those described in U.S. Appl. Pub. No. 2008/0182308, which is incorporated herein by reference.
  • the 1 -butanol biosynthetic pathway comprises the following substrate to product conversions:
  • butyryl-CoA crotonyl-CoA to butyryl-CoA, which may be catalyzed, for example, by butyryl-CoA dehydrogenase;
  • butyryl-CoA to butyraldehyde, which may be catalyzed, for example, by butyraldehyde dehydrogenase;
  • butyraldehyde to 1 -butanol which may be catalyzed, for example, by butanol dehydrogenase.
  • Biosynthetic pathways for the production of 2-butanol include those described in U.S. Appl. Pub. No. 2007/0259410 and U.S. Appl. Pub. No. 2009/0155870, which are incorporated herein by reference.
  • the 2-butanol biosynthetic pathway comprises the following substrate to product conversions:
  • alpha-acetolactate which may be catalyzed, for example, by acetolactate synthase;
  • alpha-acetolactate to acetoin which may be catalyzed, for example, by acetolactate decarboxylase;
  • the 2-butanol biosynthetic pathway comprises the following substrate to product conversions:
  • alpha-acetolactate which may be catalyzed, for example, by acetolactate synthase;
  • alpha-acetolactate to acetoin which may be catalyzed, for example, by acetolactate decarboxylase;
  • FIG. 1 illustrates an example process flow diagram for production of product alcohol such as ethanol or butanol according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • a feedstock 12 can be introduced to an inlet in a liquefaction vessel 10 and liquefied to produce a feedstock slurry 16.
  • Feedstock 12 contains hydrolysable polysaccharides that supplies a fermentable carbon substrate (e.g., fermentable sugar such as glucose), and can be a biomass such as, but not limited to rye, wheat, cane or corn, or can otherwise be derived from a biomass.
  • feedstock 12 can be one or more components of a fractionated biomass, and in other embodiments, feedstock 12 can be a milled, unfractionated biomass.
  • feedstock 12 can be corn, such as dry milled, unfractionated corn kernels, and the undissolved particles can include germ, fiber, and gluten. The undissolved solids are non-fermentable portions of feedstock 12.
  • feedstock 12 will often be described as constituting milled, unfractionated corn, in which the undissolved solids have not been separated therefrom.
  • feedstock 12 will often be described as constituting milled, unfractionated corn, in which the undissolved solids have not been separated therefrom.
  • the exemplary methods and systems described herein can be modified for different feedstocks whether fractionated or not, as apparent to one of skill in the art.
  • the process of liquefying feedstock 12 involves hydrolysis of polysaccharides in feedstock 12 into sugars, including for example, dextrins and oligosaccharides.
  • Any known liquefying processes, as well as the corresponding liquefaction vessel, normally utilized by the industry can be used including, but not limited to, the acid process, the acid- enzyme process, or the enzyme process. Such processes can be used alone or in combination.
  • the enzyme process can be utilized and an appropriate enzyme 14, for example alpha-amylase, is introduced to an inlet in liquefaction vessel 10. Water can also be introduced to liquefaction vessel 10.
  • a saccharification enzyme for example glucoamylase, may also be introduced to liquefaction vessel 10.
  • Feedstock slurry 16 produced from liquefying feedstock 12 comprises fermentable carbon substrate (e.g. sugar), and, optionally, depending on the feedstock, triglycerides in the form of oil and undissolved solids derived from the feedstock.
  • Feedstock slurry 16 can be discharged from an outlet of liquefaction vessel 10.
  • feedstock 12 is corn or corn kernels and therefore feedstock slurry 16 is a corn mash slurry.
  • feedstock 12 is a lignocellulosic feedstock and therefore feedstock slurry 16 may be a lignocellulosic hydrolysate.
  • undissolved solids are removed from feedstock slurry 16 prior to introduction into the fermentation vessel.
  • Feedstock slurry 16 is introduced into a fermentation vessel 30 along with a microorganism comprising a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having lipase activity provided in accordance with the present invention 32.
  • Fermentation vessel 30 is configured to ferment slurry 16 to produce alcohol.
  • microorganism 32 contacts the fermentable carbon substrate in slurry 16 to produce product alcohol.
  • the slurry can include a fermentable carbon source, for example, in the form of oligosaccharides, and water.
  • slurry 16 is subjected to a saccharification process in order to break the complex sugars (e.g., oligosaccharides) in slurry 16 into monosaccharides that can be readily metabolized by microorganism 32.
  • a saccharification process normally utilized by the industry can be used including, but not limited to, the acid process, the acid-enzyme process, or the enzyme process.
  • simultaneous saccharification and fermentation can occur inside fermentation vessel 30, as shown in FIG. 1 .
  • an enzyme 38 such as glucoamylase, can be introduced to an inlet in fermentation vessel 30 in order to breakdown the starch or oligosaccharides to glucose capable of being metabolized by microorganism 32.
  • Carboxylic acid 28 and/or native oil containing triglycerides 26 are introduced into fermentation vessel 30, along with an optional catalyst 42.
  • Optional catalyst 42 can be introduced before, after, or contemporaneously with enzyme 38.
  • addition of enzyme 38 and optional catalyst 42 can be stepwise (e.g, catalyst 42, then enzyme 38, or vice versa), or substantially simultaneous
  • Optional catalyst 42 is capable of esterifying the product alcohol with carboxylic acid 28 to form an alcohol ester and in embodiments is a purified lipase.
  • optional catalyst 42 is capable of esterifying butanol with carboxylic acid 28 to form a butanol ester.
  • catalyst 42 is optional for use in the methods described herein because the recombinant microorganism will express and and display or secrete into the fermentation medium a lipase to catalyze the esterification. However, it may be desirable to add purified lipase (optional catalyst 42) and the methods and microorganisms provided herein allow for a reduction in the amount of optional catalyst 42 to be added.
  • the acyl glycerides in oil 26 can be hydrolyzed to carboxylic acid 28 by contacting oil 26 with a polypeptide having lipase activity such as secreted or displayed by the microorganisms provided herein and/or optional catalyst 42.
  • the resulting acid/oil composition includes monoglycerides and/or diglycerides from the partial hydrolysis of the acyl glycerides in the oil.
  • the resulting acid/oil composition includes glycerol, a by-product of acyl glyceride hydrolysis.
  • the acyl glycerides in the oil derived from feedstock 12 and present in slurry 16 can also be hydrolyzed to carboxylic acid 28.
  • the concentration of carboxylic acids in the broth is sufficient to form a two- phase fermentation mixture comprising an organic phase and an aqueous phase.
  • Carboxylic acid 28 can be any carboxylic acid capable of esterifying with a product alcohol, such as butanol or ethanol, to produce an alcohol ester of the carboxylic acid.
  • carboxylic acid 28 can be free fatty acid, and in some embodiments the carboxylic acid or free fatty acid have a chain length of 4 to 28 carbons, 4 to 22 carbons in other embodiments, 8 to 22 carbons in other embodiments, 10 to 28 carbons in other embodiments, 10 to 22 carbons in other embodiments, 12 to 22 carbons in other embodiments, 4 to 18 carbons in other embodiments, 12 to 22 carbons in other embodiments, and 12 to 18 carbons in still other embodiments, and 16 to 22 carbons in still other embodiments.
  • carboxylic acid 28 is one or more of the following fatty acids: azaleic, capric, caprylic, castor, coconut (i.e., as a naturally-occurring combination of fatty acids, including lauric, myrisitic, plamitic, caprylic, capric, stearic, caproic, arachidic, oleic, and linoleic, for example), isostearic, lauric, linseed, ,myristic, oleic, palm oil, palmitic, palm kernel, pelargonic, ricinoleic, sebacic, soya, stearic acid, tall oil, tallow, and #12 hydroxy stearic.
  • azaleic, capric, caprylic, castor, coconut i.e., as a naturally-occurring combination of fatty acids, including lauric, myrisitic, plamitic, caprylic, capric, stearic, caproic, arachi
  • carboxylic acid 28 is one or more of diacids, e.g., azelaic acid and sebacic acid.
  • carboxylic acid 28 is one or more saturated, primary carboxylic acids with defined branching of the carbon chain, where said carboxylic acid or mixtures thereof are prepared by the oxidation of 2- alkyl-1 -alkanols well known as Guerbet alcohols, where the carboxylic acids have a total number of carbons of from 12 to 22.
  • carboxylic acid 28 can be a mixture of two or more different fatty acids.
  • carboxylic acid 28 comprises free fatty acid derived from hydrolysis of acyl glycerides by any method known in the art, including chemical or enzymatic hydrolysis.
  • carboxylic acid 28 can be derived from native oil 26 by enzymatic hydrolysis of the oil glycerides using an enzyme as catalyst 42.
  • the fatty acids or mixtures thereof comprise unsaturated fatty acids. The presence of unsaturated fatty acids decreases the melting point, providing advantages for handling. Of the unsaturated fatty acids, those which are monounsaturated, i.e. possessing a single carbon-carbon double bond, may provide advantages with respect to melting point without sacrificing suitable thermal and oxidative stability for process considerations.
  • native oil 26 can be tallow, corn, canola, capric/caprylic triglycerides, castor, coconut, cottonseed, fish, jojoba, lard, linseed, neetsfoot, oiticica, palm, peanut, rapeseed, rice, safflower, soya, sunflower, tung, jatropha, pumpkin, palm, grape seed and vegetable oil blends (or oils that can be purified into higher concentrations of different chain length and levels of unsaturation (i.e., 18:1 )).
  • native oil 26 is a mixture of two or more native oils, such as a mixture of palm and soybean oils, for example.
  • native oil 26 is a plant-derived oil.
  • the plant- derived oil can be, though not necessarily, derived from biomass that can be used in a fermentation process.
  • the biomass can be the same or different source from which feedstock 12 is obtained.
  • oil 26 can be derived from corn, whereas feedstock 12 can be cane.
  • oil 26 can be derived from corn, and the biomass source of feedstock 12 is also corn. Any possible combination of different biomass sources for oil 26 versus feedstock 12 can be used, as should be apparent to one of skill in the art.
  • oil 26 is derived from the biomass used in the fermentation process.
  • oil 26 is derived directly from feedstock 12. For example, when feedstock 12 is corn, then oil 26 is the feedstock's constituent corn oil and may be introduced into fermentation vessel 30 along with slurry 16.
  • alcohol produced by microorganism 32 is esterified with carboxylic acid 28 by the polypeptide having lipase activity secreted by the microorganism (and optionally catalyst 42) to form alcohol esters.
  • butanol produced by microorganism 32 is esterified with carboxylic acid 28 to form butanol esters.
  • ISPR In situ product removal
  • Utilizing a recombinant microorganism which expresses and secretes or displays a polypeptide having lipase activity to form esters in conjunction with ISPR can improve the performance of the fermentation.
  • lipase activity in the fermentation medium and esterification of the product alcohol during a fermentation may improve the ability of the microorganism to produce the product alcohol which is particularly desirable for product alcohols that are toxic to the production host cells.
  • methods of improving tolerance of a microorganism to a product alcohol by engineering the microorganism to produce and secrete a polypeptide having lipase activity.
  • using the microorganism to produce a lipase to form esters in conjunction with ISPR can increase the effective titer by at least about 10%, at least about 20%, at least about 30%, at least about 40%, at least about 50%, at least about 60%, at least about 70%, at least about 80%, at least about 90%, or at least about 100% as compared to the effective titer in an analogous fermentation using ISPR without the microorganism producing a lipase.
  • using the microorganism to produce a lipase to form esters in conjunction with ISPR can increase the effective rate by at least about 10%, at least about 20%, at least about 30%, at least about 40%, at least about 50%, at least about 60%, at least about 70%, at least about 80%, at least about 90%, or at least about 100% as compared to the effective rate in an analogous fermentation using ISPR without the microorganism producing a lipase.
  • the effective yield is increased by at least about 10%, at least about 20%, at least about 30%, at least about 40%, or at least about 50%.
  • the resulting fermentation broth after alcohol esterification can comprise free (i.e., unesterified) alcohol, and in some embodiments, the concentration of free alcohol in the fermentation broth after alcohol esterification is not greater than 1 , 3, 6, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 25, 40, 45, 50, 55, or 60 g/L when the product alcohol is butanol, or, when the product alcohol is ethanol, the concentration of free alcohol in the fermentation broth after alcohol esterification is not greater than 15, 20, 25, 30 25, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, or 100 g/L. In some embodiments, at least about 20%, at least about 30%, at least about 40%, at least about 50%, at least about 60%, at least about 70%, at least about 80%, or at least about 90% of the effective titer of alcohol is converted to alcohol ester.
  • the fermentation broth is contacted during fermentation with an extractant to form a two-phase mixture comprising an aqueous phase and an organic phase.
  • an extractant to form a two-phase mixture comprising an aqueous phase and an organic phase.
  • Such liquid-liquid extraction can be performed according to the processes described in U.S. Pub. No. 2009/0305370, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated in its entirety.
  • U.S. Patent Appl. Pub. No. 2009/0305370 describes methods for producing and recovering butanol from a fermentation broth using liquid- liquid extraction, the methods comprising the step of contacting the fermentation broth with a water immiscible extractant to form a two-phase mixture comprising an aqueous phase and an organic phase.
  • the extractant can be an organic extractant selected from the group consisting of saturated, mono-unsaturated, poly-unsaturated (and mixtures thereof) C12 to C22 fatty alcohols, C12 to C22 fatty acids, esters of C12 to C22 fatty acids, C12 to C22 fatty aldehydes, C12 to C22 fatty amides, and mixtures thereof.
  • the extractant may also be an organic extractant selected from the group consisting of saturated, mono-unsaturated, polyunsaturated (and mixtures thereof) C 4 to C22 fatty alcohols, C 4 to C28 fatty acids, esters of C 4 to C28 fatty acids, C 4 to C22 fatty aldehydes, and mixtures thereof.
  • suitable extractants include an extractant comprising at least one solvent selected from the group consisting of oleyl alcohol, behenyl alcohol, cetyl alcohol, lauryl alcohol, myristyl alcohol, stearyl alcohol, oleic acid, lauric acid, myristic acid, stearic acid, methyl myristate, methyl oleate, lauric aldehyde, 1 -nonanol, 1 -decanol, 1 - undecanol, 2-undecanol, 1 -nonanal, 2-butyloctanol, 2-butyl-octanoic acid and mixtures thereof.
  • the extractant comprises oleyl alcohol.
  • the extractant comprises a branched chain saturated alcohol, for example, 2-butyloctanol, commercially available as ISOFAL® 12 (Sasol, Houston, TX) or Jarcol 1-12 (Jarchem Industries, Inc., Newark, NJ).
  • the extractant comprises a branched chain carboxylic acid, for example, 2-butyl-octanoic acid, 2-hexyl-decanoic acid, or 2-decyl-tetradecanoic acid, commercially available as ISOCARB® 12, ISOCARB® 16, and ISOCARB® 24, respectively (Sasol, Houston, TX).
  • the extractant(s) for ISPR are typically non-alcohol extractants, so as to avoid consuming carboxylic acid 28 in fermentation vessel 30 by catalytic esterification of carboxylic acid 28 with an alcohol extractant, whereby less carboxylic acid would be available for esterification with the product alcohol.
  • the extractant(s) for ISPR are typically non-alcohol extractants, so as to avoid consuming carboxylic acid 28 in fermentation vessel 30 by catalytic esterification of carboxylic acid 28 with an alcohol extractant, whereby less carboxylic acid would be available for esterification with the product alcohol.
  • oleyl alcohol is used as an ISPR extractant, then oleyl alcohol esters of the carboxylic acid may be produced in fernnentation vessel due to the presence of lipase activity.
  • the carboxylic acid 28 can also serve as an ISPR extractant 28 or a component thereof.
  • carboxylic acid 28 can be supplied, and/or formed in situ in the case when native oil 26 is supplied to fermentation vessel 30, and/or formed in situ in the case when feedstock 16 includes triglycerides in the form of oil that can be hydrolyzed.
  • ISPR extractant 28 includes free fatty acids.
  • ISPR extractant 28 includes corn oil fatty acids (COFA).
  • oil 26 is corn oil, whereby ISPR extractant 28 is COFA.
  • ISPR extractant (carboxylic acid) 28 contacts the fermentation broth and forms a two-phase mixture comprising an aqueous phase 34 and an organic phase.
  • the product alcohol ester formed in the fermentation broth preferentially partitions into the organic phase to form an ester-containing organic phase 36. Any free product alcohol in the fermentation broth also preferentially partitions into the ester-containing organic phase.
  • the biphasic mixture can be removed from fermentation vessel 30 as stream 39 and introduced into a vessel 35, in which the ester-containing organic phase 36 is separated from aqueous phase 34.
  • aqueous phase 34 Separation of biphasic mixture 39 into ester-containing organic phase 36 and aqueous phase 34 can be achieved using any methods known in the art, including but not limited to, siphoning, aspiration, decantation, centrifugation, using a gravity settler, membrane-assisted phase splitting, and the like. All or part of aqueous phase 34 can be recycled into fermentation vessel 30 as fermentation medium (as shown), or otherwise discarded and replaced with fresh medium, or treated for the removal of any remaining product alcohol and then recycled to fermentation vessel 30.
  • ester-containing organic phase 36 is introduced into vessel 50 in which the alcohol esters are reacted with one or more substances 52 to recover product alcohol 54.
  • Product alcohol 54 can be recovered using any method known in the art and/or described in
  • L means liter(s)
  • mL means milliliter(s)
  • ⁇ means microliter(s).
  • Samples (ca. 5.0 g) were removed from a stirred reaction mixture or fermentation broth containing corn oil fatty acids (COFA) as extractant, and centrifuged to separate aqueous phase and extractant phase.
  • a sample of the resulting aqueous phase or extractant phase (ca. 0.50 g, actual weight recorded) was dissolved in 4.50 mL of a solution of 5.5556 mg/mL of pentadecanoic acid methyl ester (C15:0 FAME, external standard) in isopropanol. The resulting solution was centrifuged to remove any suspended solids, then ca.
  • the carrier gas was helium at a flow rate of 1 .8 mL/min measured at 80 °C with constant head pressure; injector split was 20:1 at 250 °C; oven temperature was 80 °C for 2.0 minutes, 80°C to 250°C at 10°C/min, then 250 °C for 20 minutes. Flame ionization detection was used at 250°C.
  • PNY934 Isogenic with PNY 931 , transfornned with pBP915 and pYZ090AalsS
  • PNY935 Isogenic with PNY 932, transfornned with pBP915 and pYZ090AalsS
  • the strain BP857 (“PNY1500”) was derived from CEN.PK 1 13-7D (CBS 8340; Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (CBS) Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Netherlands) and contains deletions of the following genes: URA3, HIS3.
  • a ura3::loxP- kanMX-loxP cassette was PCR-amplified from pLA54 template DNA (SEQ ID NO: 25).
  • pLA54 contains the K. lactis TEF1 promoter and kanMX marker, and is flanked by loxP sites to allow recombination with Cre recombinase and removal of the marker.
  • PCR was done using Phusion DNA polymerase (New England BioLabs; Ipswich, MA) and primers BK505 and BK506 (SEQ ID NOs:26 and 27).
  • each primer was derived from the 5' region upstream of the URA3 promoter and 3' region downstream of the coding region such that integration of the loxP-kanMX-loxP marker resulted in replacement of the URA3 coding region.
  • the PCR product was transformed into CEN.PK 1 13-7D using standard genetic techniques (Methods in Yeast Genetics, 2005, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, pp. 201 -202) and transformants were selected on YPD containing G418 (100 Mg/ml) at 30 °C. Transformants were screened to verify correct integration by PCR using primers LA468 and LA492 (SEQ ID NOs:28 and 29) and designated CEN.PK 1 13-7D Aura3::kanMX.
  • HIS3 Fragment A was amplified with primer oBP452 (SEQ ID NO: 30) and primer oBP453 (SEQ ID NO: 31 ), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 5' end of HIS3 Fragment B.
  • HIS3 Fragment B was amplified with primer oBP454 (SEQ ID NO: 32), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 3' end of HIS3 Fragment A, and primer oBP455 (SEQ ID NO: 33), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 5' end of HIS3 Fragment U.
  • HIS3 Fragment U was amplified with primer oBP456 (SEQ ID NO: 34), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 3' end of HIS3 Fragment B, and primer oBP457 (SEQ ID NO: 35), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 5' end of HIS3 Fragment C.
  • HIS3 Fragment C was amplified with primer oBP458 (SEQ ID NO: 36), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 3' end of HIS3 Fragment U, and primer oBP459 (SEQ ID NO: 37). PCR products were purified with a PCR Purification kit (Qiagen).
  • HIS3 Fragment AB was created by overlapping PCR by mixing HIS3 Fragment A and HIS3 Fragment B and amplifying with primers oBP452 (SEQ ID NO: 30) and oBP455 (SEQ ID NO: 33).
  • HIS3 Fragment UC was created by overlapping PCR by mixing HIS3 Fragment U and HIS3 Fragment C and amplifying with primers oBP456 (SEQ ID NO: 34) and oBP459 (SEQ ID NO: 37). The resulting PCR products were purified on an agarose gel followed by a Gel Extraction kit (Qiagen).
  • the HIS3 ABUC cassette was created by overlapping PCR by mixing HIS3 Fragment AB and HIS3 Fragment UC and amplifying with primers oBP452 (SEQ ID NO: 30) and OBP459 (SEQ ID NO: 37). The PCR product was purified with a PCR Purification kit (Qiagen).
  • Competent cells of CEN.PK 1 13-7D Aura3::kanMX were made and transformed with the HIS3 ABUC PCR cassette using a Frozen-EZ Yeast Transformation II kit (Zymo Research; Orange, CA). Transformation mixtures were plated on synthetic complete media lacking uracil supplemented with 2% glucose at 30 °C. Transformants with a his3 knockout were screened for by PCR with primers oBP460 (SEQ ID NO: 38) and oBP461 (SEQ ID NO: 39) using genomic DNA prepared with a Gentra Puregene Yeast/Bact kit (Qiagen). A correct transformant was selected as strain CEN.PK 1 13-7D Aura3::kanMX Ahis3::URA3.
  • the KanMX marker was removed by transforming CEN.PK 1 13-7D
  • Aura3::kanMX Ahis3::URA3 with pRS423::PGAL1 -cre (SEQ ID NO: 40) using a Frozen-EZ Yeast Transformation II kit (Zymo Research) and plating on synthetic complete medium lacking histidine and uracil supplemented with 2% glucose at 30 °C.
  • Transformants were grown in YP supplemented with 1 % galactose at 30 °C for ⁇ 6 hours to induce the Cre recombinase and KanMX marker excision and plated onto YPD (2% glucose) plates at 30 °C for recovery.
  • a correct isolate that was sensitive to G418 and auxotrophic for uracil and histidine was selected as strain CEN.PK 1 13-7D Aura3::loxP Ahis3 and designated as BP857.
  • the deletions and marker removal were confirmed by PCR and sequencing with primers oBP450 (SEQ ID NO: 41 ) and OBP451 (SEQ ID NO: 42) for Aura3 and primers oBP460 (SEQ ID NO: 38) and oBP461 (SEQ ID NO: 39) for Ahis3 using genomic DNA prepared with a Gentra Puregene Yeast/Bact kit (Qiagen).
  • PDC6 Fragment A was amplified with primer oBP440 (SEQ ID NO: 18) and primer oBP441 (SEQ ID NO: 19), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 5' end of PDC6 Fragment B.
  • PDC6 Fragment B was amplified with primer OBP442 (SEQ ID NO: 20), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 3" end of PDC6 Fragment A, and primer oBP443 (SEQ ID NO: 21 ), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 5' end of PDC6 Fragment U.
  • PDC6 Fragment U was amplified with primer oBP444 (SEQ ID NO: 22), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 3' end of PDC6 Fragment B, and primer oBP445 (SEQ ID NO: 23), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 5' end of PDC6 Fragment C.
  • PDC6 Fragment C was amplified with primer oBP446 (SEQ ID NO: 24), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 3' end of PDC6 Fragment U, and primer oBP447 (SEQ ID NO: 56). PCR products were purified with a PCR Purification kit (Qiagen).
  • PDC6 Fragment AB was created by overlapping PCR by mixing PDC6 Fragment A and PDC6 Fragment B and amplifying with primers oBP440 (SEQ ID NO:18) and OBP443 (SEQ ID NO: 21 ).
  • PDC6 Fragment UC was created by overlapping PCR by mixing PDC6 Fragment U and PDC6 Fragment C and amplifying with primers oBP444 (SEQ ID NO: 22) and oBP447 (SEQ ID NO: 56.
  • the resulting PCR products were purified on an agarose gel followed by a Gel Extraction kit (Qiagen).
  • the PDC6 ABUC cassette was created by overlapping PCR by mixing PDC6 Fragment AB and PDC6 Fragment UC and amplifying with primers oBP440 (SEQ ID NO: 18) and OBP447 (SEQ ID NO: 56).
  • the PCR product was purified with a PCR Purification kit (Qiagen).
  • Competent cells of CEN.PK 1 13-7D Aura3::loxP Ahis3 were made and transformed with the PDC6 ABUC PCR cassette using a Frozen-EZ Yeast Transformation II kit (Zymo Research). Transformation mixtures were plated on synthetic complete media lacking uracil supplemented with 2% glucose at 30 °C. Transformants with a pdc6 knockout were screened for by PCR with primers oBP448 (SEQ ID NO: 57) and oBP449 (SEQ ID NO: 58) using genomic DNA prepared with a Gentra Puregene Yeast/Bact kit (Qiagen). A correct transformant was selected as strain CEN.PK 1 13- 7D Aura3::loxP Ahis3 Apdc6::URA3.
  • the PDC1 gene was deleted and replaced with the ilvD coding region from Streptococcus mutans ATCC #700610.
  • the A fragment followed by the ilvD coding region from Streptococcus mutans for the PCR cassette for the PDC1 deletion-ilvDSm integration was amplified using Phusion High Fidelity PCR Master Mix (New England BioLabs) and NYLA83 genomic DNA as template, prepared with a Gentra Puregene Yeast/Bact kit (Qiagen).
  • NYLA83 is a strain (construction described in U.S. App. Pub. NO. 201 10124060, incorporated herein by reference in its entirety) which carries the PDC1 deletion-ilvDSm integration described in U.S. Patent Application Publication No.
  • PDC1 Fragment A-ilvDSm was amplified with primer oBP513 (SEQ ID NO: 61 ) and primer oBP515 (SEQ ID NO: 62), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 5' end of PDC1 Fragment B.
  • the B, U, and C fragments for the PCR cassette for the PDC1 deletion-ilvDSm integration were amplified using Phusion High Fidelity PCR Master Mix (New England BioLabs) and CEN.PK 1 13-7D genomic DNA as template, prepared with a Gentra Puregene Yeast/Bact kit (Qiagen).
  • PDC1 Fragment B was amplified with primer oBP516 (SEQ ID NO: 63) containing a 5' tail with homology to the 3' end of PDC1 Fragment A-ilvDSm, and primer oBP517 (SEQ ID NO: 64), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 5' end of PDC1 Fragment U.
  • PDC1 Fragment U was amplified with primer oBP518 (SEQ ID NO: 65), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 3' end of PDC1 Fragment B, and primer oBP519 (SEQ ID NO: 66), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 5' end of PDC1 Fragment C.
  • PDC1 Fragment C was amplified with primer oBP520 (SEQ ID NO: 67), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 3' end of PDC1 Fragment U, and primer oBP521 (SEQ ID NO: 68). PCR products were purified with a PCR Purification kit (Qiagen). PDC1 Fragment A-ilvDSm-B was created by overlapping PCR by mixing PDC1 Fragment A-ilvDSm (SEQ ID NO: 171 ) and PDC1 Fragment B and amplifying with primers OBP513 (SEQ ID NO: 61 ) and oBP517 (SEQ ID NO: 64).
  • PDC1 Fragment UC was created by overlapping PCR by mixing PDC1 Fragment U and PDC1 Fragment C and amplifying with primers oBP518 (SEQ ID NO: 65) and oBP521 (SEQ ID NO: 68). The resulting PCR products were purified on an agarose gel followed by a Gel Extraction kit (Qiagen).
  • the PDC1 A- ilvDSm-BUC cassette (SEQ ID NO: 172) was created by overlapping PCR by mixing PDC1 Fragment A-ilvDSm-B and PDC1 Fragment UC and amplifying with primers oBP513 (SEQ ID NO: 61 ) and oBP521 (SEQ ID NO: 68). The PCR product was purified with a PCR Purification kit (Qiagen).
  • Competent cells of CEN.PK 1 13-7D Aura3::loxP Ahis3 Apdc6 were made and transformed with the PDC1 A-ilvDSm-BUC PCR cassette using a Frozen-EZ Yeast Transformation II kit (Zymo Research). Transformation mixtures were plated on synthetic complete media lacking uracil supplemented with 2% glucose at 30 °C. Transformants with a pdd knockout ilvDSm integration were screened for by PCR with primers OBP51 1 (SEQ ID NO: 69) and oBP512 (SEQ ID NO: 70) using genomic DNA prepared with a Gentra Puregene Yeast/Bact kit (Qiagen).
  • CEN.PK 1 13-7D Aura3::loxP Ahis3 Apdc6 Apdd ::ilvDSm-URA3 was grown overnight in YPD and plated on synthetic complete medium containing 5-fluoro-orotic acid (0.1 %) at 30 °C to select for isolates that lost the URA3 marker.
  • the deletion of PDC1, integration of ilvDSm, and marker removal were confirmed by PCR and sequencing with primers OBP51 1 (SEQ ID NO: 69) and oBP512 (SEQ ID NO: 70) using genomic DNA prepared with a Gentra Puregene Yeast/Bact kit (Qiagen). The correct isolate was selected as strain CEN.PK 1 13-7D Aura3::loxP Ahis3 Apdc6 Apdd ::ilvDSm and designated as BP907.
  • PDC5 Deletion sadB Inteqration The PDC5 gene was deleted and replaced with the sadB coding region from Achromobacter xylosoxidans (the sadB gene is described in U.S. Patent Appl. No. 2009/0269823, which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety).
  • a segment of the PCR cassette for the PDC5 deletion-sadB integration was first cloned into plasmid pUC19-URA3MCS.
  • PUC19-URA3MCS is pUC19 (SEQ ID NO: 94) based and contains the sequence of the URA3 gene from S. cerevisiae situated within a multiple cloning site (MCS).
  • pUC19 contains the pMB1 replicon and a gene coding for beta-lactamase for replication and selection in E. coli.
  • the sequences from upstream and downstream of this gene were included for expression of the URA3 gene in yeast.
  • the vector can be used for cloning purposes and can be used as a yeast integration vector.
  • the DNA encompassing the URA3 coding region along with 250 bp upstream and 150 bp downstream of the URA3 coding region from Saccharomyces cerevisiae CEN.PK 1 13-7D genomic DNA was amplified with primers oBP438 (SEQ ID NO: 89), containing BamH ⁇ , Asc ⁇ , Pme ⁇ , and Fse ⁇ restriction sites, and oBP439 (SEQ ID NO: 90), containing Xba ⁇ , Pad, and Not ⁇ restriction sites, using Phusion High-Fidelity PCR Master Mix (New England BioLabs). Genomic DNA was prepared using a Gentra Puregene Yeast/Bact kit (Qiagen).
  • PCR product and pUC19 were ligated with T4 DNA ligase after digestion with BamH ⁇ and Xba ⁇ to create vector pUC19-URA3MCS.
  • the vector was confirmed by PCR and sequencing with primers oBP264 (SEQ ID NO: 91 ) and oBP265 (SEQ ID NO: 92).
  • the coding sequence of sadB and PDC5 Fragment B were cloned into pUC19-URA3MCS to create the sadB-BU portion of the PDC5 A- sadB-BUC PCR cassette.
  • the coding sequence of sadB was amplified using pLH468-sadB (SEQ ID NO: 93) as template with primer oBP530 (SEQ ID NO: 73), containing an Asc ⁇ restriction site, and primer oBP531 (SEQ ID NO: 74), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 5' end of PDC5 Fragment B.
  • PDC5 Fragment B was amplified with primer oBP532 (SEQ ID NO: 75), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 3' end of sadB, and primer oBP533 (SEQ ID NO: 76), containing a Pme ⁇ restriction site. PCR products were purified with a PCR Purification kit (Qiagen). sadB-PDC5 Fragment B was created by overlapping PCR by mixing the sadB and PDC5 Fragment B PCR products and amplifying with primers oBP530 (SEQ ID NO: 73) and OBP533 (SEQ ID NO: 76).
  • the resulting PCR product was digested with Asc ⁇ and Pme ⁇ and ligated with T4 DNA ligase into the corresponding sites of pUC19-URA3MCS after digestion with the appropriate enzymes.
  • the resulting plasmid was used as a template for amplification of sadB-Fragment B-Fragment U using primers oBP536 (SEQ ID NO: 77) and oBP546 (SEQ ID NO: 78), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 5' end of PDC5 Fragment C.
  • PDC5 Fragment C was amplified with primer oBP547 (SEQ ID NO: 79) containing a 5' tail with homology to the 3' end of PDC5 sadB-Fragment B-Fragment U, and primer oBP539 (SEQ ID NO: 80). PCR products were purified with a PCR Purification kit (Qiagen). PDC5 sadB-Fragment B-Fragment U-Fragment C was created by overlapping PCR by mixing PDC5 sadB-Fragment B- Fragment U and PDC5 Fragment C and amplifying with primers oBP536 (SEQ ID NO: 77) and OBP539 (SEQ ID NO: 80).
  • the resulting PCR product was purified on an agarose gel followed by a Gel Extraction kit (Qiagen).
  • the PDC5 A-sadB-BUC cassette (SEQ ID NO: 173) was created by amplifying PDC5 sadB-Fragment B-Fragment U-Fragment C with primers oBP542 (SEQ ID NO: 81 ), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 50 nucleotides immediately upstream of the native PDC5 coding sequence, and oBP539 (SEQ ID NO: 80).
  • the PCR product was purified with a PCR Purification kit (Qiagen).
  • Competent cells of CEN.PK 1 13-7D Aura3::loxP Ahis3 Apdc6 Apdd ::ilvDSm were made and transformed with the PDC5 A-sadB-BUC PCR cassette using a Frozen-EZ Yeast Transformation II kit (Zymo Research). Transformation mixtures were plated on synthetic complete media lacking uracil supplemented with 1 % ethanol (no glucose) at 30 °C. Transformants with a pdc5 knockout sadB integration were screened for by PCR with primers oBP540 (SEQ ID NO: 82) and oBP541 (SEQ ID NO: 83) using genomic DNA prepared with a Gentra Puregene Yeast/Bact kit (Qiagen).
  • oBP540 SEQ ID NO: 82
  • oBP541 SEQ ID NO: 83
  • CEN.PK 1 13-7D Aura3::loxP Ahis3 Apdc6 Apdd ::ilvDSm Apdc5::sadB-URA3 was grown overnight in YPE (1 % ethanol) and plated on synthetic complete medium supplemented with ethanol (no glucose) and containing 5-fluoro-orotic acid (0.1 %) at 30 °C to select for isolates that lost the URA3 marker.
  • the deletion of PDC5, integration of sadB, and marker removal were confirmed by PCR with primers oBP540 (SEQ ID NO: 82) and oBP541 (SEQ ID NO: 83) using genomic DNA prepared with a Gentra Puregene Yeast/Bact kit (Qiagen). The correct isolate was selected as strain CEN.PK 1 13-7D Aura3::loxP Ahis3 Apdc6 Apdd ::ilvDSm Apdc5::sadB and designated as BP913.
  • a gpd2::loxP- URA3-loxP cassette (SEQ ID NO: 174) was PCR-amplified using loxP- URA3-loxP PCR as template DNA.
  • loxP-URA3-loxP (SEQ ID NO: 170) contains the URA3 marker from pRS426 flanked by loxP recombinase sites. PCR was done using Phusion DNA polymerase and primers LA512 (SEQ ID NO: 95) and LA513 (SEQ ID NO: 96).
  • the GPD2 portion of each primer was derived from the 5' region upstream of the GPD2 coding region and 3' region downstream of the coding region such that integration of the loxP-URA3-loxP marker resulted in replacement of the GPD2 coding region.
  • the PCR product was transformed into BP913 and transformants were selected on synthetic complete media lacking uracil supplemented with 1 % ethanol (no glucose). Transformants were screened to verify correct integration by PCR using primers oBP582 and AA270.
  • the URA3 marker was recycled by transformation with pRS423::PGAL1 -cre and plating on synthetic complete media lacking histidine supplemented with 1 % ethanol at 30 °C. Transformants were streaked on synthetic complete medium supplemented with 1 % ethanol and containing 5-fluoro-orotic acid (0.1 %) and incubated at 30 °C to select for isolates that had lost the URA3 marker. 5-FOA resistant isolates were grown in YPE (1 % ethanol) for removal of the pRS423::PGAL1 -cre plasmid. The deletion and marker removal were confirmed by PCR with primers oBP582 (SEQ ID NO: 97) and oBP591 (SEQ ID NO: 98).
  • the correct isolate was selected as strain CEN.PK 1 13-7D Aura3::loxP Ahis3 Apdc6 Apdd ::ilvDSm Apdc5::sadB Agpd2::loxP and designated as BP1064 (PNY1503).
  • the FRA2 deletion was designed to delete 250 nucleotides from the 3' end of the coding sequence, leaving the first 1 13 nucleotides of the FRA2 coding sequence intact. An in-frame stop codon was present 7 nucleotides downstream of the deletion.
  • the four fragments for the PCR cassette for the scarless FRA2 deletion were amplified using Phusion High Fidelity PCR Master Mix (New England BioLabs) and CEN.PK 1 13-7D genomic DNA as template, prepared with a Gentra Puregene Yeast Bact kit (Qiagen).
  • FRA2 Fragment A was amplified with primer oBP594 (SEQ ID NO: 99) and primer oBP595 (SEQ ID NO: 102), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 5' end of FRA2 Fragment B.
  • FRA2 Fragment B was amplified with primer oBP596 (SEQ ID NO: 103), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 3' end of FRA2 Fragment A, and primer oBP597 (SEQ ID NO: 104), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 5' end of FRA2 Fragment U.
  • FRA2 Fragment U was amplified with primer oBP598 (SEQ ID NO: 105), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 3' end of FRA2 Fragment B, and primer oBP599 (SEQ ID NO: 106) containing a 5' tail with homology to the 5' end of FRA2 Fragment C.
  • FRA2 Fragment C was amplified with primer 0BP6OO (SEQ ID NO: 107), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 3' end of FRA2 Fragment U, and primer 0BP6OI (SEQ ID NO: 108).
  • PCR products were purified with a PCR Purification kit (Qiagen).
  • FRA2 Fragment AB was created by overlapping PCR by mixing FRA2 Fragment A and FRA2 Fragment B and amplifying with primers OBP594 (SEQ ID NO: 99) and oBP597 (SEQ ID NO: 104).
  • FRA2 Fragment UC was created by overlapping PCR by mixing FRA2 Fragment U and FRA2 Fragment C and amplifying with primers oBP598 (SEQ ID NO: 105) and oBP601 (SEQ ID NO: 108). The resulting PCR products were purified on an agarose gel followed by a Gel Extraction kit (Qiagen).
  • the FRA2 ABUC cassette was created by overlapping PCR by mixing FRA2 Fragment AB and FRA2 Fragment UC and amplifying with primers OBP594 (SEQ ID NO: 99) and 0BP6OI (SEQ ID NO: 108).
  • the PCR product was purified with a PCR Purification kit (Qiagen).
  • Competent cells of PNY1503 were made and transformed with the
  • FRA2 ABUC PCR cassette using a Frozen-EZ Yeast Transformation II kit (Zymo Research). Transformation mixtures were plated on synthetic complete media lacking uracil supplemented with 1 % ethanol at 30 °C. Transformants with a fra2 knockout were screened for by PCR with primers oBP602 (SEQ ID NO: 109) and oBP603 (SEQ ID NO: 1 10) using genomic DNA prepared with a Gentra Puregene Yeast/Bact kit (Qiagen).
  • a correct transformant was grown in YPE (yeast extract, peptone, 1 % ethanol) and plated on synthetic complete medium containing 5-fluoro- orotic acid (0.1 %) at 30 °C to select for isolates that lost the URA3 marker.
  • the deletion and marker removal were confirmed by PCR with primers OBP602 (SEQ ID NO: 109) and oBP603 (SEQ ID NO: 1 10) using genomic DNA prepared with a Gentra Puregene Yeast/Bact kit (Qiagen).
  • the absence of the FRA2 gene from the isolate was demonstrated by a negative PCR result using primers specific for the deleted coding sequence of FRA2, oBP605 (SEQ ID NO: 1 1 1 ) and 0BP6O6 (SEQ ID NO: 1 12).
  • the correct isolate was selected as strain CEN.PK 1 13-7D MATa ura3A::loxP his3A pdc6A pdc1A::P[PDC1]-DHAD
  • the ADH1 gene was deleted and replaced with the kivD coding region from Lactococcus lactis codon optimized for expression in S. cerevisiae.
  • the scarless cassette for the ADH1 de ⁇ et ⁇ or ⁇ -kivD_LI(y) integration was first cloned into plasmid pUC19-URA3MCS.
  • the kivD coding region from Lactococcus lactis codon optimized for expression in S. cerevisiae was amplified using pLH468 (SEQ ID NO: 129) as template with primer oBP562 (SEQ ID NO: 1 13), containing a Pmel restriction site, and primer oBP563 (SEQ ID NO: 1 14), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 5' end of ADH1 Fragment B.
  • ADH1 Fragment B was amplified from genomic DNA prepared as above with primer oBP564 (SEQ ID NO: 1 15), containing a 5' tail with homology to the 3' end of kivD_LI(y), and primer oBP565 (SEQ ID NO: 1 16), containing a Fse ⁇ restriction site. PCR products were purified with a PCR Purification kit (Qiagen). kivD_LI(y)-ADH1 Fragment B was created by overlapping PCR by mixing the kivD_LI(y) and ADH1 Fragment B PCR products and amplifying with primers oBP562 (SEQ ID NO: 1 13) and oBP565 (SEQ ID NO: 1 16).
  • ADH1 Fragment A was amplified from genomic DNA with primer oBP505 (SEQ ID NO:
  • ADH1 Fragment A PCR product was digested with Sad and Asc ⁇ and ligated with T4 DNA ligase into the corresponding sites of the plasmid containing kivD_LI(y)-ADH1 Fragment B.
  • ADH1 Fragment C was amplified from genomic DNA with primer oBP507 (SEQ ID NO: 1 19), containing a Pad restriction site, and primer oBP508 (SEQ ID NO: 120), containing a Sa/I restriction site.
  • the ADH1 Fragment C PCR product was digested with Pad and Sa/I and ligated with T4 DNA ligase into the corresponding sites of the plasmid containing ADH1 Fragment A-kivD_LI(y)->4D/-/7 Fragment B.
  • the hybrid promoter UAS(PGK7)-P FBA1 was amplified from vector pRS316- UAS(PGK7)-PFBAI -GUS (SEQ ID NO: 130) with primer oBP674 (SEQ ID NO: 121 ), containing an Asc ⁇ restriction site, and primer oBP675 (SEQ ID NO: 122), containing a Pmel restriction site.
  • the UAS(PGK7)-P F BAI PCR product was digested with Asc ⁇ and Pmel and ligated with T4 DNA ligase into the corresponding sites of the plasmid containing kivD_LI(y)->AD/-/7 Fragments ABC.
  • the entire integration cassette was amplified from the resulting plasmid with primers oBP505 (SEQ ID NO: 1 17) and oBP508 (SEQ ID NO: 120) and purified with a PCR Purification kit (Qiagen).
  • Competent cells of PNY1505 were made and transformed with the ADH1 -kivD_LI(y) PCR cassette constructed above using a Frozen-EZ Yeast Transformation II kit (Zymo Research). Transformation mixtures were plated on synthetic complete media lacking uracil supplemented with 1 % ethanol at 30 °C. Transformants were grown in YPE (1 % ethanol) and plated on synthetic complete medium containing 5-fluoro-orotic acid (0.1 %) at 30 °C to select for isolates that lost the URA3 marker.
  • kivD_LI(y) The deletion of ADH1 and integration of kivD_LI(y) were confirmed by PCR with external primers oBP495 (SEQ ID NO: 123) and oBP496 (SEQ ID NO: 124) and with kivD_LI(y) specific primer oBP562 (SEQ ID NO: 1 13) and external primer oBP496 (SEQ ID NO: 124) using genomic DNA prepared with a Gentra Puregene Yeast/Bact kit (Qiagen).
  • the correct isolate was selected as strain CEN.PK 1 13-7D MATa ura3A::loxP his3A pdc6A pdc1A::P[PDC1]-DHAD
  • the FBA-alsS-CYCt cassette was constructed by moving the 1 .7kb BbvCI/Pacl fragment from pRS426::GPD::alsS::CYC (described in US Patent No. 7,851 ,188, which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety) to pRS426::FBA::ILV5::CYC (described in US Patent No. 7,851 ,188, which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety), which had been previously digested with BbvC ⁇ /Pac ⁇ to release the ILV5 gene. Ligation reactions were transformed into E.
  • coli TOP10 cells and transformants were screened by PCR using primers N98SeqF1 (SEQ ID NO: 125) and N99SeqR2 (SEQ ID NO: 126).
  • the FBA-alsS-CYCt cassette was isolated from the vector using BglW and Not ⁇ for cloning into pUC19-URA3::ilvD-TRX1 at the AflW site (Klenow fragment was used to make ends compatible for ligation).
  • Klenow fragment was used to make all ends compatible for ligation, and transformants were screened by PCR to select a clone with the geneticin resistance gene in the same orientation as the previous URA3 marker using primers BK468 (SEQ ID NO: 131 ) and N160SeqF5 (SEQ ID NO: 154).
  • the resulting clone was called pUC19-kan::pdc1 ::FBA-alsS::TRX1 (clone A) (SEQ ID NO: 155).
  • the pUC19-kan::pdc1 ::FBA-alsS integration vector described above was linearized with Pme ⁇ and transformed into PNY1507.
  • Pme ⁇ cuts the vector within the cloned pdc1-TRX1 intergenic region and thus leads to targeted integration at that location (Rodney Rothstein, Methods in Enzymology, 1991 , volume 194, pp. 281 -301 ).
  • Transformants were selected on YPE plus 50 g/ml G418. Patched transformants were screened by PCR for the integration event using primers N160SeqF5 (SEQ ID NO: 154) and oBP512 (SEQ ID NO: 70).
  • the plasmid-free parent strain was designated PNY2204 (MATa ura3A::loxP his3A pdc6A pdc1A::P[PDC1 ]- DHAD
  • PNY221 1 was constructed in several steps from S. cerevisiae strain PNY1507 as described in the following paragraphs. First the strain was modified to contain a phosphoketolase gene. Next, an acetolactate synthase gene (alsS) was added to the strain, using an integration vector targeted to sequence adjacent to the phosphoketolase gene. Finally, homologous recombination was used to remove the phosphoketolase gene and integration vector sequences, resulting in a scarless insertion of alsS in the intergenic region between pdc1A:: ' ⁇ vD and the native TRX1 gene of chromosome XII.
  • alsS acetolactate synthase gene
  • the resulting genotype of PNY221 1 is MATa ura3A::loxP his3A pdc6A pdc1A::P[PDC1 ]-DHAD
  • a phosphoketolase gene cassette was introduced into PNY1507 by homologous recombination.
  • the integration construct was generated as follows.
  • the plasmid pRS423::CUP1 -alsS+FBA-budA (previously described in US2009/0305363, which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety) was digested with Not ⁇ and Xma ⁇ to remove the 1 .8 kb FBA- budA sequence, and the vector was religated after treatment with Klenow fragment.
  • the CUP1 promoter was replaced with a TEF1 promoter variant (M4 variant previously described by Nevoigt et al. Appl. Environ. Microbiol.
  • TEF(M4)-xpk1 The 3.1 kb TEF(M4)-xpk1 gene was isolated by digestion with Sad and Not ⁇ and cloned into the pUC19- URA3::ilvD-TRX1 vector (Clone A, cut with AflW). Cloning fragments were treated with Klenow fragment to generate blunt ends for ligation. Ligation reactions were transformed into E. coli Stbl3 cells, selecting for ampicillin resistance. Insertion of TEF1 (M4)-xpk1 was confirmed by PCR (primers N1 1 10 (SEQ ID NO: 153) and N1 1 14 (SEQ ID NO: 162)). The vector was linearized with AflW and treated with Klenow fragment.
  • the 1 .8 kb Kpnl- Vietnamese geneticin resistance cassette described in WO201 1 159853A1 was cloned by ligation after Klenow fragment treatment. Ligation reactions were transformed into E. coli Stbl3 cells, selecting for ampicillin resistance. Insertion of the geneticin cassette was confirmed by PCR (primers N 160SeqF5 (SEQ ID NO: 154) and BK468 (SEQ ID NO: 131 )). The plasmid sequence is provided herein (pUC19-URA3::pdc1 ::TEF(M4)-xpk1 ::kan, SEQ ID NO: 157).
  • the resulting integration cassette (pdc1 ::TEF1 (M4)- xpkl ::KanMX::TRX1 ) was isolated (Asc ⁇ and A/ael digestion generated a 5.3 kb band that was gel purified) and transformed into PNY1507 using the Zymo Research Frozen-EZ Yeast Transformation Kit (Cat. No. T2001 ). Transformants were selected by plating on YPE plus 50 g/ml G418. Integration at the expected locus was confirmed by PCR (primers N886 and N1214, SEQ ID NOs: 161 and 167, respectively).
  • plasmid pRS423::GAL1 p-Cre (SEQ ID NO: 169), encoding Cre recombinase, was used to remove the loxP-flanked KanMX cassette. Proper removal of the cassette was confirmed by PCR (primers oBP512 and N160SeqF5 (SEQ ID NOs: 168 and 154, respectively)).
  • the a/sS integration plasmid described herein (SEQ ID NO: 155; pUC19-kan::pdc1 ::FBA-alsS::TRX1 , clone A) was transformed into this strain using the included geneticin selection marker.
  • PNY2218 was treated with Cre recombinase, and the resulting clones were screened for loss of the xpkl gene and pUC19 integration vector sequences by PCR (primers N886 and N160SeqR5; SEQ ID NOs: 161 and 158, respectively). This left only the alsS gene integrated in the pdc1-TRX1 intergenic region after recombination the DNA upstream of xpkl and the homologous DNA introduced during insertion of the integration vector (a "scarless" insertion since vector, marker gene and loxP sequences are lost).
  • Strain PNY2242 was constructed in several steps from PNY1507 (described above). First, a chimeric gene comprised of the FBA1 promoter, the alsS coding region and the CYC1 terminator was integrated into Chromosome XII, upstream of the TRX1 gene. The sequence of the modified locus is provided as SEQ ID No. 176. Next, two copies of a gene encoding horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase were integrated into Chromsomes VII and XVI. On Chromosome VII, a chimeric gene comprised of the PDC1 promoter, the hADH coding region and the ADH1 terminator were placed into the fra2A locus (the original deletion of FRA2 is described above).
  • the sequence of the modified locus is provided as SEQ ID No. 177.
  • a chimeric gene comprised of the PDC5 promoter, the hADH coding region and the ADH1 terminator were integrated in the region formerly occupied by the long term repeat element YPRCdelta15.
  • the sequence of the modified locus is provided as SEQ ID No. 178.
  • the native genes YMR226c and ALD6 were deleted. Elimination of YMR226c was a scarless deletion of only the coding region.
  • the sequence of the modified locus is provided as SEQ ID No. 179.
  • the ALD6 coding region plus 700 bp of upstream sequence were deleted using CRE-lox mediated marker removal (methodology described above), so the resulting locus contains one loxP site.
  • the sequence of the modified locus is provided as SEQ ID No. 180.
  • plasmids were introduced into the strain for expression of a variant of Anaerostipes caccae KARI (pLH702, SEQ ID. No. 181 ) and DHAD (pYZ067DkivDDhADH, SEQ ID. No. 182), resulting in strain PNY2242.
  • the DNA sequence of the native LIP1 lipase from C. deformans was obtained from GenBank (accession number AJ428393), and the open reading frame (ORF) was optimized for expression in yeast (DNA 2.0). The resulting DNA sequence had 76% sequence identity with the wild type sequence, and encoded an identical protein.
  • the DNA comprising the expression-optimized ORF sequence was synthesized (DNA 2.0), and the resulting DNA molecule was cloned into a yeast-E. coli shuttle vector by gap-repair cloning (Oldenburg KR, Vo KT, Michaelis S, & Paddon C (1997) Recombination-mediated PCR-directed plasmid construction in vivo in yeast. Nucleic Acids Res 25:451 -452).
  • the LIP1 lipase ORF was amplified using primers AK10-33_Cdl_5 and AK10-34_Cdl_3 (SEQ ID NOs: 10 and 1 1 , respectively), which include 5' regions having homology to regions in plasmid pNAK34 (SEQ ID NO: x).
  • the resulting PCR product was co-transformed into S. cerevisiae strain PNY1500 with pNAK34 that had been linearized with the Pad restriction endonuclease, by lithium acetate/PEG transformation essentially as described (Gietz RD & Woods RA (2006) Yeast transformation by the LiAc/SS Carrier DNA/PEG method. Methods Mol Biol 313:107-120).
  • the transformation reaction was plated onto synthetic complete agar medium (Sherman F (2002) Getting started with yeast. Methods in Enzymology 350:3-41 ) containing 2% glucose and dropout mix minus histidine (Formedium, UK, catalog number DSCK-042; SCD-His medium). After incubation at 30 °C for 3 d, His + colonies were picked for further analysis.
  • LIP1 lipase-positive isolates were plated onto SC-His medium containing tributyrin and incubated at 30 °C for 3 d.
  • the LIP1 lipase- positive isolates had a zone of clearing around them, indicating that they were secreting a functional lipase enzyme capable of hydrolyzing tributyrin; in contrast, a control yeast strain did not cause clearing of tributyrin in the agar medium.
  • the plasmids from 3 isolates were recovered by plasmid rescue (Robzyk K & Kassir Y (1992) A simple and highly efficient procedure for rescuing autonomous plasmids from yeast. Nucleic Acids Res.
  • the DNA sequence of the native lipase from Thermomyces lanuginosus was obtained from GenBank (accession number AF054513), and the sequence was optimized for expression in yeast (DNA 2.0). The resulting DNA sequence had 76% sequence identity with the wildtype sequence, and encoded an identical protein.
  • the DNA comprising the expression-optimized ORF sequence was synthesized (DNA 2.0), and the resulting DNA molecule was cloned into a yeast-E. coli shuttle vector by gap-repair cloning as in Example 1 .
  • the synthesized T. lanuginosus Tlan lipase ORF was amplified using primers AK10-42_TI5-1 and AK10-43_TI3 (SEQ ID NOs: 12 and 13, respectively), which include 5' regions having homology to regions in plasmid pNAKI O (SEQ ID NO: 45; FIGURE 3).
  • the resulting PCR product was co-transformed into S.
  • Tlan lipase-positive isolates were plated onto SCD-His medium containing tributyrin and incubated at 30 °C for 3 d.
  • the Tlan lipase- positive isolates had a zone of clearing around them, indicating that they were secreting a functional lipase activity; in contrast, a control yeast strain did not cause clearing of tributyrin in the agar medium.
  • the plasmids from three isolates were recovered by plasmid rescue and sequenced using M13-reverse and T7-promoter primers (SEQ ID NOs: 16 and 17). The sequences were a perfect match for the predicted plasmid product of the gap-repair cloning strategy (data not shown).
  • One plasmid was named pTVAN2 (SEQ ID NO: 100).
  • T. lanuginosus Lipase in Yeast One positive isolate from Example 2, PNY1020, was pre-cultured overnight in SCD-His medium, and this was used to inoculate four 500 ml_ cultures of SCD-His medium; two cultures were treated with the asparaginyl glycosylation inhibitor tunicamycin (5 Mg/rinL; Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis MO). The flasks were incubated at 30 °C and 250 rpm in a shaking incubator.
  • YPD medium yeast extract, 10 g/L; peptone, 20 g/L; glucose, 20 g/L
  • YPD medium yeast extract, 10 g/L; peptone, 20 g/L; glucose, 20 g/L
  • the supernatants were concentrated approximately 500-fold under pressure through a 10,000 dalton molecular weight cutoff filter.
  • the protein concentration of the retentates was measured, and 20 g of protein was analyzed by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, using a 4-12% acrylamide Bis-Tris gel (Invitrogen, Carlsbad CA) according to the manufacturer's instructions.
  • the gel was stained with Coomassie Blue R- 250, and destained.
  • the tunicamycin-treated protein had a lower molecular weight, as demonstrated by its higher mobility in the gel (not shown).
  • the identity of the band as Tlan lipase was confirmed by amino- terminal sequencing.
  • the concentration of Tlan lipase protein (expressed with or without tunicamycin treatment) in the retentates was estimated to be 25% of total soluble protein based on SDS-PAGE analysis, and these two retentates containing Tlan lipase protein (expressed with or without tunicamycin treatment) were employed as catalyst for in-vitro esterification of isobutanol with corn oil fatty acids (Example 5).
  • a 5-L round bottom flask was equipped with a mechanical stirrer, thermocouple, heating mantle, condenser and nitrogen tee and charged with 750 g of crude corn oil, 21 12 g of water and 285 g of 50% sodium hydroxide solution. Mixture was heated to 90 °C and held for two hours, during which time it became a thick, emulsion-like single phase. At the end of this time thin-layer chromatography indicated no remaining corn oil in the mixture. The mixture was then cooled to 74 °C and 900 g of 25% sulfuric acid was added to acidify the mixture, which was then cooled to 50 °C and the aqueous layer was separated.
  • iBuOH isobutanol
  • iBuO-COFA corn oil fatty acids
  • the reactions containing TIan lipase produced considerably more iBuO-COFA than the control reaction; the lipase samples that were secreted from yeast in the presence of tunicamycin produced considerably more iBuO-COFA than that produced without the inhibitor being present..
  • the Tlan lipase isolate PNY1020 and the control strain PNY908 were pre-cultured in SCD-His medium, and used to inoculate flasks (with non-vented caps) containing 25 mL of SC-His medium.
  • the flasks were amended with 8.25 g sterile COFA (33% w/w), isobutanol (0.50 g, added after 8 h of growth), and tunicamycin (Tnm, final concentration 5 pg/ml) as follows (Table
  • the flasks were incubated at 30 °C and 250 rpm, and sampled after 24 h and 96 h of incubation. Samples were analyzed for glucose, ethanol, isobutanol, and fatty acid alkyl esters in the aqueous phase by HPLC or GC, and for isobutanol and fatty acid alkyl esters in the organic phase by GC (Tables 12 and 13). When both isobutanol and COFA were added to the cultures, the lipase-expressing strain (flasks F8 and F9) produced more iBuO-COFA than the control strain (flask F4). The cells treated with tunicamycin produced more ester than the cells without inhibitor treatment
  • Candida antarctica lipase B (CalB lipase) was obtained from GenBank (accession number Z30645), and the sequence was optimized for expression in yeast (DNA 2.0, Menlo Park, CA). The resulting DNA sequence had 72% sequence identity with the wildtype sequence, and encoded an identical protein.
  • the DNA comprising the expression-optimized CalB open reading frame (ORF) sequence was synthesized (DNA 2.0), and the resulting DNA molecule was cloned into a yeast-E. coli shuttle vector by gap-repair cloning.
  • the CalB lipase ORF was amplified using primers CALBL_gap_for and CALBL_gap_rev (SEQ ID NOs: 14 and 15), which include 5' regions having homology to regions in plasmid pNAK34 (SEQ ID NO: 232).
  • the resulting PCR product was co-transformed into S.
  • plasmids pNAK33 SEQ ID NO: 231
  • pNAK34 SEQ ID NO: 232
  • pNAK35 SEQ ID NO: 233
  • the transformation reaction was plated onto SCD-His medium. After incubation at 30 °C for 3 days, colonies were analyzed for plasmid containing the CalB lipase sequence by colony PCR using primers CALBL_gap_for and CALBL_gap_rev (SEQ ID NOs: 14 and 15).
  • CalB lipase-positive isolates were plated onto SCD-His medium containing tributyrin and incubated at 30 °C for 3 days.
  • the CalB lipase- positive isolates had a zone of clearing around them, indicating that they were secreting a functional lipase activity; in contrast, a control yeast strain did not cause clearing of tributyrin in the agar medium.
  • the plasmids from 3 isolates were recovered by plasmid rescue and sequenced using M13-reverse and T7-promoter primers (SEQ ID NOs: 16 and 17). The sequences were a perfect match for the predicted plasmid product of the gap-repair cloning strategy.
  • the resulting plasmids were named pTVAN7 (TEF1 (M2) promoter), pTVAN3 (TEF1 (M4) promoter), and pTVAN8
  • TEF1 (M6) promoter SEQ ID NOs: 278 , 277, and 240, respectively.
  • a domain that tethers the secreted T. lanuginosus lipase to the yeast cell surface was introduced as follows.
  • Yeast genomic DNA (PNY1500) was used as template in a PCR reaction with primers AK1 1 -46 and AK1 1 -47 (SEQ ID NOs: 215 and 216, respectively), which amplified the codons for the C-terminal 320 amino acids of the yeast a-agglutinin protein encoded by SAG1, and added a sequence at the 5' end containing a glycine- and serine-rich linker region.
  • Amplification was done with Phusion DNA polymerase (New England Biolabs) according to the manufacturer's instructions.
  • This GS-SAG1 DNA was TOPO cloned into pCR-Bluntll-TOPO (InVitrogen) and transformed into DH5a.
  • the pGS-SAG1 plasmid (SEQ ID NO: 217) was recovered by mini-prep (Qiagen) and the correct sequence was confirmed by DNA sequencing.
  • the DNA was amplified with primers Sagtgapl and Sagtgap2 (SEQ ID NOs: 218 and 219, respectively) which include regions of homology for gap-repair cloning into lipase expression vectors pTVAN1 1 , pTVAN12, and pTVAN13 (SEQ ID NOs: 220, 221 , and 222, respectively).
  • the purified PCR products were transformed into yeast strain PNY1500 along with Pad-digested pTVAN1 1 (TEF1 (M2) promoter), pTVAN12 (TEF1 (M4) promoter), or pTVAN13 (TEF1 (M6) promoter).
  • the transformation reactions were plated to SCD-His medium; colonies that appeared tested positive for expression of lipase activity on tributyrin plates. Plasmids were rescued from these isolates (Yeast Plasmid Miniprep Kit, Zymo Research) and transformed into E. coli DH5a and purified. Sequence analysis showed the expected nucleotide sequence of the lipase-SAG1 chimera.
  • the lipase-expressing strains (PNY1052, PNY1053, and PNY1054) and the control strain (PNY1500) were grown overnight in 50 mL SCD-His medium, in a 250 mL vented-cap flask incubated at 30 °C and 250 rpm. The following morning, 21 .5 mL of the culture was transferred to a 125 mL flask (unvented cap), with addition of 1 .75 mL glucose (500 g/L), 2.5 mL 10X YEP (100 g/L yeast extract, 200 g/L peptone), and 0.313 mL isobutanol.
  • This experiment was conducted to determine whether the lipase activity expressed by the SAG1 -lipase chimera was in fact cell-associated or was secreted into the culture broth.
  • the lipase-expressing strains (PNY1052, PNY1053, and PNY1054) and the control strain (PNY1500) were grown for 24 h in 25 mL SCD-His medium (6.7 g/L yeast nitrogen base without amino acids, 1926 mg dropout mix minus histidine, 20 g/L glucose), in a 250 mL vented-cap flask incubated at 30° C and 250 rpm. Then the cells and culture broth were separated by centrifugation; the cell pellet was washed twice and resuspended in 25 ml_ 50 mM MES buffer pH 5.5. The spent cell-free culture medium was amended with 1 M MES buffer pH 5.5 to 50 mM.
  • SCD-His medium 6.7 g/L yeast nitrogen base without amino acids, 1926 mg dropout mix minus histidine, 20 g/L glucose
  • the Tlan lipase transgene was amplified from plasmid pTVAN6 (SEQ ID NO: 183) with oligonucleotides AK1 1 -24 (SEQ ID NO: 132) and
  • AK1 1 -25 (SEQ ID NO: 133), which include Asc ⁇ sites at their 5' ends.
  • PCR products were digested with Asc ⁇ and ligated into >Ascl-digested pBP1236 (SEQ ID NO: 185).
  • This plasmid is used to apply the technique of Akada et al. (Akada R et al. (2006) PCR-mediated seamless gene deletion and marker recycling in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast 23:399-405) for integration of transgenes at the fra2A locus of yeast.
  • the ligation mixture was transformed into competent E. coli DH5a (Invitrogen, Carlsbad CA) and plated onto LB-ampicillin agar.
  • Plasmid pNAK15 (SEQ ID NO: 186) contains the wildtype lipase transgene in the reverse direction
  • pNAK16 SEQ ID NO: 187) contains the wildtype lipase transgene in the forward orientation.
  • the lipase transgenes were amplified from these plasmids along with flanking DNA that targets them for integration at fra2A (and which includes the URA3 gene as a selectable marker) using primers oBP691 (SEQ ID NO: 136) and OBP696 (SEQ ID NO: 137).
  • the PCR products were purified and concentrated using a QIAQuick PCR Purification kit.
  • Yeast strain PNY221 1 (construction described above) was grown overnight in YPE medium (10 g/L yeast extract, 20 g/L peptone, 20 mL/l 95% ethanol) at 30 °C and 250 rpm, and transformed with the PCR products followed by plating to SCE-Ura agar medium (6.7 g/L yeast nitrogen base without amino acids (YNB; Difco 291940, BD, Franklin Lakes NJ), 1926 mg/L dropout mix -Ura (DSCK102, Formedium, Norfolk UK), 20 mL/L 95% ethanol).
  • YPE medium 10 g/L yeast extract, 20 g/L peptone, 20 mL/l 95% ethanol
  • Ura + colonies were plated to fresh medium, and then re-plated to FOA medium (6.7 g/L YNB, 1 g/L 5-fluoroorotic acid, 200 mg/L uracil, 20 mL/l 95% ethanol) to select for isolates that had lost the URA3 selection marker.
  • FOA medium 6.7 g/L YNB, 1 g/L 5-fluoroorotic acid, 200 mg/L uracil, 20 mL/l 95% ethanol
  • FOA-resistant transformants were checked for correct integration of the transgene and loss of the selection marker by colony PCR using primer pairs for each flank of the integration cassette as follows: for the construct with the transgene in the forward orientation (from pNAK16), primer pairs AK1 1 -26 (SEQ ID NO: 134) and oBP730 (SEQ ID NO: 138), and AK1 1 -27 (SEQ ID NO: 135) and oBP731 (SEQ ID NO: 139), were used; for the construct with the transgene in the reverse orientation (from pNAK15), primer pairs AK1 1 -27 (SEQ ID NO: 135) and oBP730 (SEQ ID NO: 138), and AK1 1 -26 (SEQ ID NO: 134) and oBP731 (SEQ ID NO: 139), were used. Isolates that produced the correct PCR products were chosen for further study, and named PNY931 (reverse orientation) and PNY932 (forward orientation).
  • the lipase integrant yeast strains, and their parent strain PNY221 1 were transformed with plasmids pBP915 (SEQ ID NO: 44) and pYZ090AalsS (SEQ ID NO: 43) in order to introduce an isobutanol metabolic pathway.
  • the strains were cultivated overnight in YPE medium, then transformed with plasmid DNA as described above, and plated to SCE -His -Ura agar medium (6.7 g/L YNB, 1850 mg/L dropout mix -His - Ura (DSCK162, Formedium), 20 mL/l 95% ethanol). Colonies were re- plated to SCE -His -Ura agar medium, and named PNY934 and PNY935.
  • Samples were taken at 0 h (0.6 mL, before COFA addition), and at 24 h and 72 h (5 mL each, after thorough mixing of the aqueous and COFA phases). Samples were analyzed by HPLC and GC as previously described. At 24 h, 1 .5 ml_ of 500 g/L glucose was added.
  • the isobutanol produced in these fermentations was distributed among 3 fractions: free isobutanol in the aqueous and COFA phases, and a fatty acid isobutyl ester (FABE) fraction produced by the esterification of isobutanol with fatty acids.
  • FBE fatty acid isobutyl ester
  • the lipase-catalyzed esterification of isobutanol into FABE resulted in a decrease in the aqueous isobutanol concentration as a percent of the total amount of isobutanol in the system by about 10%, from 53% to 43% at 24 h, and from 45% to -31 % at 72 h.
  • the lipase-secreting strains produced more FABE than the control strain (in this instance ⁇ 5-6-fold more).
  • the proportion of the total isobutanol in the aqueous fraction was decreased as a consequence of FABE formation, by -10% at 24 h and by -15% at 72 h.
  • the cultures in which lipase-secreting isobutanologens were grown produced significantly more FABE fraction than the control.
  • the amount of FABE produced in the fermentation with the PNY936 strain secreting glycosylation-mutant lipase did not differ significantly from that produced by the strains secreting the wildtype lipase enzyme.
  • the PCR products were digested with Asc ⁇ and ligated into Asc ⁇ - digested pNAK36 (SEQ ID NO: 223).
  • the ligation mixture was transformed into competent E. coli DH5a (Invitrogen) and plated onto LB- ampicillin agar. Colonies from this plate were grown overnight in LB- ampicillin, and plasmid DNA was isolated using the Qiaprep Spin Miniprep kit. Recombinant plasmids were identified by digestion with Asc ⁇ and agarose gel electrophoresis.
  • Plasmid pNAK38 (SEQ ID NO: 224) contains the CalB lipase under control of the TEF1 (M6) promoter
  • pNAK37 (SEQ ID NO: 225) contains the LIP1 lipase under control of the TEF1 (M4) promoter
  • pNAK39 (SEQ ID NO: 226) contains the LIP1 lipase under control of the TEF1 (M6) promoter.
  • the lipase transgenes were amplified from these plasmids along with flanking DNA that targets them for integration at gpd2A (and which includes the URA3 gene as a selectable marker) using primers oBP691 (SEQ ID NO: 136) and OBP696 (SEQ ID NO: 137).
  • the PCR products were purified and concentrated using a QIAQuick PCR Purification kit.
  • Yeast strain PNY1556 was grown overnight in YPE medium (10 g/l yeast extract, 20 g/l peptone, 20 ml/l 95% ethanol) at 30° C and 250 rpm, and transformed with the PCR products followed by plating to SCE -Ura agar medium. Ura + colonies were plated to fresh medium, and then re-plated to FOA medium to select for isolates that had lost the selectable marker.
  • FOA-resistant transformants were checked for correct integration of the transgene and loss of the selectable marker by colony PCR using primer pairs for each flank of the integration cassette as follows: genomic DNA was purified using the PureGene kit (Qiagen) essentially as described by the manufacturer. This was used as template for a PCR reaction with oligos HY48 (SEQ ID NO: 227) and HY49 (SEQ ID NO: 228). Positive integrants were plated to FOA medium, and FOA-resistant isolates were recovered. Isolates which had lost the URA3 marker from the gpd2A locus were identified by PCR using oligos HY48 and HY49 as described above.
  • Ura DE agar medium these cells were used to inoculate 3 ml pre-cultures of SC -His -Ura DE medium, which were grown ⁇ 6 h. Two ml were used to inoculate 50 ml of the same medium in 250 ml flasks with vented caps; these were grown overnight to an optical density (OD 6 oo) of ⁇ 1 . The next morning glucose, yeast extract, and peptone were added to concentrations of 35, 10, and 20 g/l, respectively, with a final volume of 75 ml.
  • the isobutanol produced in these fermentations was distributed among 3 phases: free isobutanol in the aqueous and COFA phases, and fatty acid isobutyl ester (FABE) produced the esterification of isobutanol with fatty acids.
  • FBE fatty acid isobutyl ester
  • the strain expressing the CalB lipase produced much less FABE than the strains expressing the C. deformans enzyme, although there was significantly more FABE in its flasks than in the control fermentations.
  • the fermentations carried out by lipase-expressing isobutanologens are all marked by a significantly lower aqueous isobutanol concentration than the control fermentations. In the case of the fermentations with C. deformans- expressing strains (PNY1022 and PNY1023), this corresponds with a significant accumulation of FABE; the strain expressing the C.
  • the total isobutanol production is comparable to the no-lipase control when a weak promoter is used to express the lipase gene; when a strong promoter is used, the total isobutanol production is 24% higher than the control.
  • the DNA encoding the Aspergillus tubingensis LIP3 lipase was synthesized (DNA 2.0) with codon usage optimized for expression in S. cerevisiae. This DNA was amplified using primers Atublipl and Atubl_ip2 (SEQ ID NOs: 229 and 230, respectively) with Phusion DNA polymerase (New England Biolabs). The PCR product was transformed into yeast strain PNY1500 along with gapped plasmids pNAK33 (TEF1 (M2) promoter), pNAK34 (TEF1 (M4) promoter), and pNAK35 (TEF1 (M6) promoter) (SEQ ID NOs: 231 , 232, and 233, respectively).
  • the transformation reactions were plated to SCD-His medium; colonies that appeared tested positive for expression of lipase activity on tributyrin plates. Plasmids were rescued from these isolates (Yeast Plasmid Miniprep Kit, Zymo Research) and transformed into E. coli DH5a and purified. Sequence analysis showed the expected nucleotide sequence of the A. tubingensis lipase transgenes. They were named pTVAN9, pTVAN4, and pTVANI O, respectively, for the TEF1 (M2), TEF1 (M4), and TEF1 (M6) promoter variants, respectively ((SEQ ID NOs: 234, 235, and 236, respectively)).
  • the lipase-expressing strains PNY1055 (pTVAN9), PNY1056 (pTVAN4), and PNY1057 (pTVANI O) and the wildtype control strain (PNY827) were grown overnight in 50 mL SCD-His medium in a 250 mL vented-cap flask incubated at 30 °C and 250 rpm. The following morning, 22 mL of the culture was transferred to a 125 mL flask (unvented cap), with addition of 1 .75 mL glucose (500 g/L), 2.5 mL 10X YEP (100 g/L yeast extract, 200 g/L peptone), and 0.313 mL isobutanol.
  • LIP1 and CalB LIP1 has two glycosylation sites (NIS at residue 146 and NNT at residue 167), and CalB has one (NDT at residue 99). These were altered by site-directed mutagenesis to substitute N with A in all cases (and to create the double mutant in LIP1 ) as follows.
  • the DNA was digested with Dpn ⁇ restriction endonuclease.
  • the treated plasmids were transformed into E. co// XL1 -Blue competent cells, and recovered using the Qiaprep Spin Miniprep Kit (Qiagen). Mutated clones were identified by DNA sequence analysis of the mutagenized plasmids.
  • the plasmids were named pTVAN20, pTVAN25, pTVAN26, and pTVAN27, respectively.
  • the plasmids (and control plasmids with the wildtype lipase genes) were transformed into the PNY1500 yeast strain.

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L'invention concerne des procédés de production d'alcool esters pendant une fermentation par utilisation de microorganismes produisant de l'alcool qui comportent en outre un polynucléotide d'ingénierie codant un polypeptide ayant une activité lipase.
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